Subject: Re: bug#42013: 26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected

From: Hendrik Tews <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:15:29 +0200

> The garbage collector is conservative, so objects may not be collected
> immediately, even if they appear unreferenced.

OK, would it be possible to update the documentation?

Is there a way to trigger a full collection of all unreachable
objects? I would like to use this and the numbers that
garbage-collect returns to check that a certain piece of code
does not leak memory. Or is there another way to check that all
allocations done within a form are unreachable after leaving that
form?

Thanks

Hendrik