Tree problem

[chokitofrito]

Hi there, I just want to know if, when I create a large binary tree, and I re-"pointed" the root pointer to another node somewhere below in that same tree (say, a terminal node), will the "upper" parts of the tree (starting from the new root node) be removed/deleted from memory? Please explain your answers.
Thank you.

Sorry for my English.

[teknomage1]

I suppose that depends on your implementation of the tree and whether there are any other live references to those nodes.

[Belisarius]

To elaborate, the garbage collection in Java is pretty good. If there are objects (in this case, parts of the tree) that are no longer being referenced by the program, Java will probably free up the memory.