But with no way in 2002 to prevent sun.misc.Unsafe from being used outside the JDK, its memory access methods became a “Swiss Army knife” for library developers who wanted more power and ...

Memory garbage collection is only one of the applications of reference counting; it is also used for deallocation control of system objects, Windows COM objects, and file system blocks or files.

Feb 29, 2024 11:03:00 White House recommends developers move from C++ and C to memory-safe programming languages such as Rust and Java ...