imagine you're playing in a sandbox at the playground. you have a corner to yourself and you built a sand castle. This is a computer taking up memory.
Your mother tells you it's time to go home. you leave the sandbox, but you don't knock down your castle. it stays up after you leave. this is memory being deleted.
Your sand castle will stay up until another kid comes to knock it down, so they can build their own thing. This is memory reallocation.
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Reply to eli5 How is computer memory deleted? by unlikemike123
imagine you're playing in a sandbox at the playground. you have a corner to yourself and you built a sand castle. This is a computer taking up memory.
Your mother tells you it's time to go home. you leave the sandbox, but you don't knock down your castle. it stays up after you leave. this is memory being deleted.
Your sand castle will stay up until another kid comes to knock it down, so they can build their own thing. This is memory reallocation.