What is the significance of the “finalize” method ?

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In order to understand the “finalize” method one needs to understand the concept of garbage collection.
The job of freeing up the memory allocated to objects is that of a garbage collector. When the garbage collector determines that an object is no longer referenced it automatically runs a special destructor function called “Finalize”.

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