CLR also contains the Garbage Collector (GC), which runs in a low-priority thread and checks for un-referenced, dynamically allocated memory space. If it finds some data that is no longer referenced by any variable/reference, it re-claims it and returns it to the OS. The presence of a standard Garbage Collector frees the programmer from keeping track of dangling data. Ask any C++ programmer how big a relief it is!
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