As in the Thread.State is RUNNING and I set the Thread reference to null immediately after I start the thread
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As in the Thread.State is RUNNING and I set the Thread reference to null immediately after I start the thread
As already stated in the other question’s answers, the thread would not be garbage collected.
By definition, an object is only elligible for garbage collection if it is not reachable by any live thread – and I’d consider a thread in running state a live thread. 🙂
From the Java 7 Spec (12.6.1):
And internally I’m sure some part of the JVM still has a reference to that thread, the scheduler for example.