[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: can we rely on when garbage collection fires?

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The behaviour is the same as if you’d done the DELETE PROCEDURE yourself; the difference is that you don’t have to remember to do it since when the object is GC’ed, the handle will be deleted along with it. Trimming the sessions will have the same gross effect – the memory will be cleared – but doing it as-you-go means that the memory shouldn’t grow unchecked during the life of a session. Trimming sessions also means that you may incur a cost on session instantiation (if there’s work done in the session startup event procedure). Obviously YMMV.

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