Module magnus::gc

Functions for working with Ruby’s Garbage Collector.

See also Ruby for more GC related methods.

Structs

• Compactor
  A handle to functions relating to GC compaction.
• Marker
  A handle to GC marking functions.

Traits

• Locate
  Trait indicating types that can given to Compactor::location.
• Mark
  Trait indicating types that can be passed to GC marking functions.

Functions

• adjust_memory_usage
  Inform Ruby of external memory usage.
• all_stats
  Returns all possible key/value pairs for stat as a Ruby Hash.
• count
  Returns the number of garbage collections that have been run since the start of the process.
• disable
  Disable automatic GC runs.
• enable
  Enable automatic GC run.
• register_address
  Inform Ruby’s garbage collector that valref points to a live Ruby object.
• register_mark_object
  Registers value to never be garbage collected.
• start
  Trigger a “full” GC run.
• stat
  Returns the GC profiling value for key.
• unregister_address
  Inform Ruby’s garbage collector that valref that was previously registered with register_address no longer points to a live Ruby object.