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no difference

Posted by siva on February 26, 2001 at 9:45 PM

there is no difference between these two calls.
System.gc() will get the the current runtime and call gc()on that.
so runtime.gc() is indirectly called by System.gc().
the code will be like

class System{
.......
gc(){
getruntime().gc();
}
}