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what is the use of calling garbage collector

843829Mar 15 2006 — edited Apr 11 2006
what is the usage of calling garbage collector explicitly in our application,I know that it will frees the memory,Even though we did'nt call the System.gc(); the Jvm will do this.So what is the purpose of calling System.gc() and when should we go for this.
Thanks in advance
Kanchana
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