Message3791

Colin, 
AFAIK there is no way of disabling the garbage collector in Java.
This is documented in the docstring of gc:

>>> import gc
>>> print gc.__doc__
This module provides access to the garbage collector.

enable() -- Enable automatic garbage collection (does nothing).
isenabled() -- Returns True because Java garbage collection cannot be
disabled.
collect() -- Trigger a Java garbage collection (potentially expensive).
get_debug() -- Get debugging flags (returns 0).

Other functions raise NotImplementedError because they do not apply to Java.

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