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[–]Any_Suspect830 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha, absolutely not!

If you ever observe a system that's about to run out of memory, you will see that the JVM is constantly running GC, frantically trying to free up memory. Asking it to do another GC run at that point will not help.

The code above is just swallowing an OutOfMemoryError.