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Garbage Collection
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[FIXME: this is pasted in from Tom Lord's original guile.texi and should
be reviewed]

 - primitive: gc
     Scans all of SCM objects and reclaims for further use those that
     are no longer accessible.

 - primitive: gc-stats
     Returns an association list of statistics about Guile's current
     use of storage.

 - primitive: object-address obj
     Return an integer that for the lifetime of OBJ is uniquely
     returned by this function for OBJ

 - primitive: unhash-name name