posted 21 years ago
When an object is unreachable, it becomes *eligible* for gc'ing - that is, the next time the garbage collector runs, it *may* gc the object. The finalize method is called *immediately* before the object gets gc'ed and there is no guarantee to when or wether this will happen besides that it will happen before an OutOfMemoryError occurs. Even System.gc() does only *suggest* that the gc gets activated.
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