Should i nullify an interrupted thread?

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I created a thread like this:

private Thread t = new Thread() {
@Override
public void run() {
    try {
        while(true) {
        // do work
        Thread.sleep(1000);
        }
    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
    }
}
};
t.start();

Then i interrupted it using t.interrupt().

As soon the thread stops and get on sleep() it will interrupt and become unusable, but will it stay on memory?

Do i have to call t = null, or the GC will take care of that?

I'm trying to dynamically interrupt the thread and recreate it when needed (using t = new Thread()), but im not sure if just interrupt() removes the old thread from memory. I've searched but couldn't find this specfic answer.

asked 47 secs ago

user3762985

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