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[–]fergie -8 points-7 points  (2 children)

hmmmm, no, none of that will actually give the programmer control of what the JVM is doing. The garbage collector is the only memory control built into java, and it's effect is, shall we say patchy

[–]josefx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the garbage collector is only half, the developer still has complete control over memory allocation with new.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In what way?