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gctorture {base}R Documentation

Torture Garbage Collector

Description

Provokes garbage collection on (nearly) every memory allocation. Intended to ferret out memory protection bugs. Also makes R run very slowly, unfortunately.

Usage

gctorture(on = TRUE)

Arguments

on

logical; turning it on/off.

Value

Previous value.

Author(s)

Peter Dalgaard


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