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Sir, they are same...

Posted by KIshori Sharan on June 29, 2001 at 10:14 AM

Bo calls the same native method. In fact, System.gc() calls the gc() method of Runtime. Following is the code for gc() method in System class. Therefore, when you call System.gc() internally it calls Runtime.getRuntime().gc().

// gc() method in System class
public static void gc() {
Runtime.getRuntime().gc();
}