This is how real men do garbage collection!

I was quite fascinated today seeing the way the famous JDK figure Martin Bucholtz does garbage collection. Anyone believing he takes garbage more seriously than that?

Enjoy:

private static final Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
static void gcTillYouDrop() {
    rt.gc();
    rt.runFinalization();
    final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
    new Object() {
      protected void finalize() {
        latch.countDown();
      }
    };
    rt.gc();
    try {
      latch.await();
    }
    catch(InterruptedException ie){
      throw new Error(ie);
    }
}

"Hyper-paranoid" indeed, in the words of Kevin.