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Strings and garbage collection

 
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If I create a String and change it several times, like this:

The value of name ends up being Steve. But since Strings are immutable, the way I understand it is that I've actually created four Strings and I've only changed the reference that the name instance points to.

So, if I have a more complicated program that may modify strings thousands of times, is it actually leaving all of those separate strings in memory, or does the garbage collector clean them up when nothing references them?
 
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Very good discussion on the same topic here Link
 
Jason Cupp
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Thank you. I'll post my questions in that thread. Sorry I didn't notice it. The title wasn't really descriptive.
 
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