Warning: This is the manual of the legacy Guile 2.0 series. You may want to read the manual of the current stable series instead.

6.18 Memory Management and Garbage Collection

Guile uses a garbage collector to manage most of its objects. While the garbage collector is designed to be mostly invisible, you sometimes need to interact with it explicitly.

See Garbage Collection for a general discussion of how garbage collection relates to using Guile from C.