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chrisseaton on Dec 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Epsilon: The JDK’s Do-Nothing Garbage Collector

> But regular GCs DO run at the end of the program

Which GCs do that? I'm not aware of any.

balfirevic on Dec 8, 2019 [–]

The article (apparently falsely) claims that default JVM GC does that:

"Short-running programs, like all programs, invoke the garbage collector at the end of their run."

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