I normally don't use it either, but I ran out of memory this morning because of lazy garbage collection. After that I inserted it in all the new methods to avoid it would happen again... fortunately I didn't actually wait 100 hours before realising something was odd :D Cheers, Sofie
Thomas Abeel wrote:

gc() is only useful if you need to reclaim huge objects before you 
allocate a new one. It can be a very expensive operation with many small 
objects, only works nicely with few big objects.

Other than that, my recommendation is to never ever use it.

-T

Sofie Van Landeghem wrote:

Does anybody ever use it?
I thought it'd speed up my program... instead it turned a 5 minute job 
into a 100 hour one :s

Sofie

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