Definitions

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  • noun The act of deallocating
  • noun computing The release of a portion of storage that had been previously been allocated to a specific task

Etymologies

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de- +‎ allocation

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Examples

  • Linear values themselves don't need garbage collection; in the absence of pointer sharing, the owner of a reference always knows when it abandons the object, and can manually deallocate it or if that's costly, put it in a queue for deallocation.

    Snell-Pym » Garbage collection 2007

  • To summarize, rvalue references can help you improve memory performance by minimizing the number of memory allocation, deallocation, and copy operations.

    Site Home Thomas Petchel [MSFT] 2011

  • While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.

    Slashdot: Ask Slashdot timothy 2010

  • While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.

    Slashdot timothy 2010

  • While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.

    Slashdot: Ask Slashdot timothy 2010

  • While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.

    Slashdot: Ask Slashdot timothy 2010

  • While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.

    Slashdot: Ask Slashdot timothy 2010

  • To reduce the communication overhead from other head, they introduced bulk delayed deallocation requests, which again looks neat -- as it reduces frequent communication.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.

    Slashdot: Ask Slashdot timothy 2010

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