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    gc_disable

    (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7)

    gc_disable — Deactivates the circular reference collector

    Description

    void gc_disable ( void )

    Deactivates the circular reference collector, setting zend.enable_gc to 0.

    Parameters

    This function has no parameters.

    Return Values

    No value is returned.

    User Contributed Notes

    Lev Kitsis
    1 year ago
    Can be very useful for big projects, when you create a lot of objects that should stay in memory. So GC can't clean them up and just wasting CPU time.

    Issue in composer:
    https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/3482#issuecomment-65199153

    Solution and people replies:
    https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/ac676f47f7bbc619678a29deae097b6b0710b799
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