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Documentation Fix Typo, Add Table (#14609)

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@ -36,13 +36,25 @@ To choose the memory management strategy use the ``--gc:`` switch.
cause memory leaks, beware.
- ``--gc:orc``. Same as ``-gc:arc`` but adds a cycle collector based on "trial deletion".
Unforunately that makes its performance profile hard to reason about so it is less
Unfortunately that makes its performance profile hard to reason about so it is less
useful for hard realtime systems.
- ``--gc:none``. No memory management strategy nor garbage collector. Allocated memory is
simply never freed. You should use ``--gc:arc`` instead.
================== ======== ================= ======================
Memory Management Heap Reference Cycles Command line switch
================== ======== ================= ======================
RefC Local Cycle Collector ``--gc:refc``
Mark & Sweep Local Cycle Collector ``--gc:markAndSweep``
ARC Shared Leak ``--gc:arc``
ORC Shared Cycle Collector ``--gc:orc``
Boehm Shared Cycle Collector ``--gc:boehm``
Go Shared Cycle Collector ``--gc:go``
None Manual Manual ``--gc:none``
================== ======== ================= ======================
JavaScript's garbage collector is used for the `JavaScript and NodeJS
<backends.html#backends-the-javascript-target>`_ compilation targets.
The `NimScript <nims.html>`_ target uses the memory management strategy built into