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The GC
module provides an interface to Ruby's mark and
sweep garbage collection mechanism. Some of the underlying methods are also
available via the ObjectSpace
module.
Disables garbage collection, returning true
if garbage
collection was already disabled.
GC.disable #=> false GC.disable #=> true
VALUE rb_gc_disable() { int old = dont_gc; dont_gc = Qtrue; return old; }
Enables garbage collection, returning true
if garbage
collection was previously disabled.
GC.disable #=> false GC.enable #=> true GC.enable #=> false
VALUE rb_gc_enable() { int old = dont_gc; dont_gc = Qfalse; return old; }
Initiates garbage collection, unless manually disabled.
VALUE rb_gc_start() { rb_gc(); return Qnil; }
returns current status of GC stress mode.
static VALUE gc_stress_get(self) VALUE self; { return ruby_gc_stress ? Qtrue : Qfalse; }