<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Garbage Collection</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="features.commandline.ini.html">INI settings</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="features.gc.refcounting-basics.html">Reference Counting Basics</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="features.html">Features</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="features.gc" class="chapter"> <h1>Garbage Collection</h1> <h2>Table of Contents</h2><ul class="chunklist chunklist_chapter"><li><a href="features.gc.refcounting-basics.html">Reference Counting Basics</a></li><li><a href="features.gc.collecting-cycles.html">Collecting Cycles</a></li><li><a href="features.gc.performance-considerations.html">Performance Considerations</a></li></ul> <p class="para"> This section explains the merits of the new Garbage Collection (also known as GC) mechanism that is part of PHP 5.3. </p> </div> <hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="features.commandline.ini.html">INI settings</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="features.gc.refcounting-basics.html">Reference Counting Basics</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="features.html">Features</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>