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399### `-g, --gc`
399### `-g, --gc`
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401−Set GC flag, dumping garbage collector logs to stdout.
401+Set GC flag, dumping garbage collector logs to stdout. This runs a GC pass at
402+the end of every virtualized computation. This is intended as a runtime
403+developer/QA tool for verifying refcounts. This currently only works if the
404+binary was built with `MEMORY_DEBUG` (which changes allocation structures and
405+produces incompatible snapshots).
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403- Undocked: `urbit -g [pier]`
407- Undocked: `urbit -g [pier]`
404- Docked: `[pier]/.run -g`
408- Docked: `[pier]/.run -g`