Method and apparatus for reducing operation of garbage collection

A method, performed by an electronic device, includes: based on a target event associated with an application being initiated, transmitting initiation of the target event to a runtime environment of the application, and after transmitting the initiation of the target event to the runtime environment, based on a memory value allocated to the application exceeding a threshold value for determining whether to initiate a garbage collection, skipping performing the garbage collection and updating a bound memory value, defined in the garbage collection, and the threshold value.