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<p>with unpredictable results.<br/>
* Double free bugs, which occur when the program tries to free a region of memory that has already been freed, and perhaps already been allocated again.<br/>
* Certain kinds of <a href="page.php?w=memory_leak">memory leak</a>s, in which a program fails to free memory occupied by objects that have become <a href="page.php?w=unreachable">unreachable</a>, which can lead to memory exhaustion.</p>

<p><big> Disadvantages </big></p>
<p>GC uses computing resources to decide which memory to free. Therefore, the penalty for the</p><p>
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