Manual memory management ||This article relies largely or
entirely upon a single source. (June 2009)| 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++. All
programming languages use manual techniques to determine when to
allocate a new object from the free store. C uses the malloc
function; C++ and Java use the new operator; determination of
when an object ought to be created is trivial and unproblematic.
The fundamental issue is determination of when an object is no
longer needed (i.e. is garbage), and arranging for its
underlying storage to be returned to the free store so that it
may be re-used to satisfy future memory r