Java Garbage Collector method

2014-09-29T13:17:15

I am trying to understand the garbage collector method.

"In Java, your program must call the garbage collector method frequently; otherwise your program will be overrun with garbage objects"

I believe this is false because the program should do this automatically, running in the background correct?

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