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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ammo-zilla
Date: 1999/10/31
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In article <7vco1c$ohs@drn.newsguy.com>,
  mike@home wrote:
> In article <7vc2er$128q$1@news.gate.net>, "David says...
>
> >I often wished when writing Java code that I could force the
JVM to clean up
> >what I wanted, when I wanted.
> >
> >David Botton
>
> you can do that. just call the gc(). to clean you local
objects, assign
> 'null' to them first.


No, as far as I know this is a seriously wrong claim. I believe
that it is still the case that some (many?) Java systems use
conservative garbage collection and thus do not guarantee to
free any memory ever (of course most of the time they will
free most garbage, they just can't guarantee to!)


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