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Garbage Collection

Reference Counting Basics
Collecting Cycles
Performance Considerations

This section explains the merits of the new Garbage Collection (also known as GC) mechanism that is part of PHP 5.3.

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neo22s at gmail dot com 30-Oct-2011 04:58


Memory cleanup for long-running scripts.



<?php

gc_enable(); // Enable Garbage Collector

var_dump(gc_enabled()); // true

var_dump(gc_collect_cycles()); // # of elements cleaned up

gc_disable(); // Disable Garbage Collector

?>

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