That doesn't FORCE garbage collection. Just suggests that if the GC would
like to run, it can.
-tg
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From: Pedro Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Garbage collection
> Tao Kang wrote:
>
> > No. You cannot force garbage collection.
>
> No? What about java.lang.System.gc() ?
>
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> Tao Kang wrote:
>
> No. You cannot force garbage collection. However, you can make an
> object to become 'subject to'
> garbage collection by making it 'unreachable.' (assigning the reference
> varaible to null, for example)
>
> Because the garbage collector runs asynchronously to your program as a
> separate thread, you cannot
> predict when it will execute, which unreachable objects it will reclaim,
> and when it will reclaim those
> objects.
>
> Tae
>
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