When to Garbage Collect

Question

I have a piece of code that load a very big image in memory. So it seemed like a reasonable thing to call

System.gc();

before loading the

Answer 1

It's fine to call the garbage collector, you don't get any "problems" from it. However, I doubt it will significently boost performance, unless that call also deals with defragging the allocated data. I don't know that.

What you should do in this case is profile the code. Run it several times, see what sort of results you get.