Removing unused and useless objects

hi
as im busying working through my first serious java (and programming) project ive become conscious of the amount of objects im creating and never use again. most of objects are small classes of my own devising or Rectangles... do unused objects sap up performance? ive tried looking for methods to delete objects but i cant seem to find anything particularly relevant, do i simply declare them as null? im aware that its probably my crude coding that creates so many useless objects but i would appreciate somebodies input.
cheers
julian

Hello,
The only way to delete unused objects is to force the garbage collector ( System.gc() ), but it's a bad method : it generally make your program slower.
Setting your unused object to null is a good method to help the garbage collector running faster, and processing more objects.
Hope this help.

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