Just because you think [Garbage collection as a civic service]? is more important than [Garbage collection as a memory management strategy]?? Obviously there is a context and bias problem, but I came to this page and found what I expected (I used to write garbage collectors for a living). I assume you did not? --drj Hmm. My comments were clearly written too hastily. I don't mean to be that harsh, but the fence has two sides, and people live on both sides of it. --drj
The storage used by the objects that are collected is reclaimed by some means, presumably to be used again for the creation of fresh objects. Thrown away is too imprecise, will edit. --drj