Pool of Interns Memory(String literals)

[Niranjan Prasad]

We all know String literals are allocated memory in Pool Interns.My doubt is how Java deallocates the memory after the usage of String literal.

[fred rosenberger]

to the best of my knowledge, it doesn't.

[Niranjan Prasad]

Can anybody throw some light on this.

[Kavita Tipnis]

I am guessing the lost literals would be garbage collected when the JVM feels like

[Henry Wong]

Niranjan Prasad wrote:Can anybody throw some light on this.

As Fred said, it doesn't get garbage collected...

Henry

[Niranjan Prasad]

Garbage Collection happens on Heap Memory

[fred rosenberger]

Niranjan Prasad wrote:Garbage Collection happens on Heap Memory

I don't see your point. String literals are a special case. They are handled a little different than other objects, so they are not eligible for GC.

There may be some strange, esoteric case where is it possible, but none that I am aware of.

[Himalay Majumdar]

How strings objects are cleaned..or GC'ed in some or the other way is not part of the exam.

[Bert Bates]

interesting topic, not on the exam.

let's move it to the intermediate forum...