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Setting references to null for garbage collection? You're probably wasting your time. Here's why that old habit doesn't actually help modern JVMs and what you should focus on instead. By Kirk Pepperdine.
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Nulling Out References Won't Help Your Garbage Collector
Learn how intricate and amazing the JVM is and how much cognitive load that it takes on so you rarely have to think about things that steal your focus away from application logic.