---
title: "call-to-gc"
description: "Discourage explicit garbage collection."
image: "https://strider.gempir.com/og.png"
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# call-to-gc

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**Default severity:** `warning`

Discourage explicit garbage collection. Default: runtime.GC.

## Bad

```go
runtime.GC() // in normal application code
```

## Good

```go
buffer = nil // let Go collect it when appropriate
```

Source: https://strider.gempir.com/lints/call-to-gc/index.mdx