Why does Blazor wasm GC Collect not work as expected?

[andersson09]

Hi,

Running the following code in a normal console app in release mode works as expected and returns false. However, the same code running in blazor wasm does not. How does one force garbage collection in blazor?

Is this something to do with the component still holding a reference?

Thanks

@code 
{   
    private void Run()
    {
        var testObject = new TestInstructions();
        var weakReference = new WeakReference(testObject);
        
        testObject = null;

        for (int i = 0; weakReference.IsAlive && (i < 10); i++)
        {
            GC.Collect();
            GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
        }

        Console.WriteLine(weakReference.IsAlive);
    }
}