How can I destroy a link from a String pool in Java?

Question

Lines are immutable. When I declare:

String a = "abc";
String a1 = "abc";

Both objects belong to one place. So, how can I destroy this "abc" link from the string pool?

My use case is that I am developing a hardware application with less memory, and for this I need to clear the links from the string pool to save memory.

Answer 1

No, usually you cannot "destroy a link from a string pool in Java" manually.

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