Demonstrates forced garbage collection : Garbage Collection : Development Class C# Source Code

    

/*
C# Programming Tips & Techniques
by Charles Wright, Kris Jamsa

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (December 28, 2001)
ISBN: 0072193794
*/
//
// gc.cs -- Demonstrates forced garbage collection
//
//          Compile this program with the following command line:
//              C:>csc gc.cs
//
namespace nsGarbage
{
    using System;
    using System.Threading;
    
    public class GCDemo
    {
        static public void Main ()
        {
            long Mem = GC.GetTotalMemory (false);
            Console.WriteLine ("Beginning allocated memory is " + Mem);
            for (int x = 0; x < 10000; ++x)
            {
                clsClass howdy = new clsClass();
            }
            Mem = GC.GetTotalMemory (false);
            Console.WriteLine ("Allocated memory before garbage collection is " + Mem);
            GC.Collect ();
            Mem = GC.GetTotalMemory (true);
            Console.WriteLine ("Allocated memory after garbage collection is " + Mem);
        }
    }
    class clsClass
    {
        public clsClass () { }
        public int x = 42;
        public float f = 2E10f;
        public double d = 3.14159;
        public string str = "This here's a string";
    }
}