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why garbage collection ?

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i want to know why JVM automatically collect garbages ? is it to prevents programs from ever running out of memory ?
 
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If you don't garbase collect, you'll run out of RAM.

GC is like a bit like dealloc in C - but done for you via object refererences.
 
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You will be also able to specify the heap size while running the application.
 
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