243. Hooking the garbage collector goal

Every programming language has to manage memory usage. Some programming languages delegate this task to programmers, while others leverage different mechanisms to partially control how memory is used. Java programmers can focus 100% on the functionalities of the application and let the garbage collector manage how memory is used.

The name garbage collector suggests an entity capable of finding and collecting garbage from memory. Actually, a garbage collector is a very complex process representing the climax of Java memory management that is capable of tracking every object from the heap and identifying and removing the ones that are not used/referenced by the application. The main advantages of a garbage collector include:

• The Java programmer doesn’t need to manually handle the allocation/deallocation of memory.
• The Java programmer doesn’t need to deal with dangling and wild pointers (https://en.wikipedia.org...