Empty an array in Java / processing

Question

Other than looping through each element in an array and setting each one to null, is there a native function in Java / processing to simply empty an array (or destroy it, to

Answer 1

I just want to add something to Mark's comment. If you want to reuse array without additional allocation, just use it again and override existing values with new ones. It will work if you fill the array sequentially. In this case just remember the last initialized element and use array until this index. It is does not matter that there is some garbage in the end of the array.