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refers to the act of writing so that it cleans up leftover and other unwanted materials from memory and the filesystem. It is sometimes treated as a synonym of refactoring code, which involves making the source code itself easier to understand, maintain, and modify.
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and storage. The deletion of temporary files is similar to the deletion of unneeded lists and arrays of
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Another technical term sometimes called "code cleanup" is
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removed from existence
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"Microsoft Talks Code Cleanup"
"Code cleanup in C++"
"Deletion of Variables in Python"
"Memory Management - Mark-and-sweep algorithm"
"Null in Java: The Pointer to Address 0"
"DOM Storage - MDN"
"Erasing Cookies and Temporary Files in Google Chrome - Google.com"
HTML Code Cleanup
Formatting and Cleaning Up Code
Resharper Code Cleanup
Code Formatter
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