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indexing
description: "Facilities for tuning up the garbage collection %
    %mechanism. This class may be used as ancestor by classes %
    %needing its facilities."
class interface
MEMORY
feature -- Status report
collecting: BOOLEAN
        -- Is garbage collection enabled?
feature -- Status setting
collection_off
        -- Disable garbage collection.
collection_on
        -- Enable garbage collection.
feature -- Removal
dispose
        -- Action to be executed just before garbage collection
        -- reclaims an object.
        -- Default version does nothing; redefine in descendants
        -- to perform specific dispose actions. Those actions
        -- should only take care of freeing external resources;
        -- they should not perform remote calls on other objects
        -- since these may also be dead and reclaimed.
full_collect
        -- Force a full collection cycle if garbage
        -- collection is enabled; do nothing otherwise.
end
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