In computer science, manual memory management refers to the usage of manual instructions by the programmer to identify and deallocate unused objects, or garbage. Up until the mid 1990s, the majority of programming languages used in industry supported manual memory management. Today, however, languages with garbage collection are becoming increasingly popular; the main manually managed languages still in widespread use today are C and C++.
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