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collectgarbage -Documentation by Aradan-

Sets garbage collection limit and calls the garbage collector if the Lua byte counter exceeds this limit.

collectgarbage({limit})

Parameters

Arguments

({limit})

limit

Number - GC limit (in KiB). If omitted, defaults to zero, forcing garbage collection.

Example

collectgarbage() -- Force garbage collection
collectgarbage(131072) -- Set GC limit to 128 MiB

Note

There is a Lua function with the exact same name but its parameters and behavior is quite different from the WoW API version.

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