Garbage Collection

Jimmy (xiaoke) Shen
1 min readJun 7, 2020

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Problem

We may have the following scenario when deleting a singly linked list or doubly linked list: “In order to delete a node from linked List, I am just pointing to the next pointer”

Will the not pointed elements be deleted by itself or should we pay extra attention?

Solution

A quick answer can be found HERE

A more comprehensive answer can be found HERE.

Python garbage collection

Python garbage collection can be found HERE.

Thanks for reading and I hope it is helpful.

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