The act or process of releasing or freeing computer memory or system resources.
From deallocate plus -ion suffix, forming a noun of action. Standard computer science term from the 1960s onward.
Deallocation is one of the most important but invisible processes in computing—without it, memory would fill up in minutes, which is why garbage collection and automatic deallocation was one of the biggest breakthroughs in programming languages.
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