> What if the system decides to send KILL to a process running > some background task (application) to regain memory.
In that case, the object's memory has not been reclaimed from the heap, the heap has been destroyed. These are two different things: if the VM's process is terminated, it's no longer meaningful to talk about garbage collection within the VM. Tom. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en