> garbage collection just aims to give the programmer the illusion of infinite memory under the assumption that only finite amounts of memory are every in use a

> garbage collection just aims to give the programmer the illusion of infinite memory under the assumption that only finite amounts of memory are every in use at once, while also absolving them from having to release memory manually. Interestingly, this is also the description of Virtual Memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory