yeah Z, but that's the point. The JVM knows how to recover system memory if it needs to. So if you've created redundant objects in memory, suggested garbage collection and it doesn't happen, then it means there's plenty more resources available and the JVM doesn't want to slow things down by running when it doesn' t need to.
As was mentioned by 'qball' if you're arrays were part of a method, when that method had finished, any variables and objects are destroyed memory recovered, but there is no definite time when this happens either. The JVM can make better decisions than us programmers.
DaveMark
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