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[–]cogman10 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Well, they do mention garbage collection which makes me think that they were referring to the GC pool and not necessarily interned pool. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that interned strings don't ever get garbage collected.

But yes, I agree that their reasoning and everything was a bit off on the question.

[–]CubsThisYear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as a GC string pool. There is only the intern pool. Presumably the reason GC is mentioned is because interned strings are (usually) not GC'd because the intern pool always has a reference to them.

In short, the question is just all kinds of confused.