How to call a surrogate for Dispose() on StringBuilder objects

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How to call a surrogate for Dispose() on StringBuilder objects(dotnettipoftheday.org)

submitted by manovich(755) 4 years, 7 months ago

How to release memory used by StringBuilder without calling System.GC.Collect().

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posted by dmihailescu(25) 4 years, 7 months ago 0

As I've shown, it's setting Length = 0, or another less elegant alternative is to call Replace(string.Empty) on the StringBuilder object.
That should clear the internal memory without invoking the finalizer.

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