Module GC
In: gc.c

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.

Methods

disable   enable   garbage_collect   start  

Public Class methods

GC.disable => true or false

Disables garbage collection, returning true if garbage collection was already disabled. 

   GC.disable   #=> false
   GC.disable   #=> true
GC.enable => true or false

Enables garbage collection, returning true if garbage collection was previously disabled. 

   GC.disable   #=> false
   GC.enable    #=> true
   GC.enable    #=> false
GC.start => nil
gc.garbage_collect => nil
ObjectSpace.garbage_collect => nil

Initiates garbage collection, unless manually disabled.

Public Instance methods

GC.start => nil
gc.garbage_collect => nil
ObjectSpace.garbage_collect => nil

Initiates garbage collection, unless manually disabled.

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