Full manual garbage collection

[bigpilot]

Would it be useful to have FULL manual garbage collection in .NET where the program determines when the Garbage Collector runs and to limit the collection time?

new property:

GC.Mode = GCCollectionMode.Manual or GCCollectionMode.Automatic // in addition to the methods that already exist

new method:

GC.Collect(int milliseconds) // only applicable if GC.Mode = Manual

This would allow time sensitive applications like games or video encoding / decoding engines to be written in a .NET language.

In addition the GC could also expose some memory pressure statistics to aid the program in determining when the garbage collection should be run.

[HaloFour]

I'd suggest opening this suggestion on the runtime repository since it doesn't affect the syntax of the language itself.

[CyrusNajmabadi]

Not a language request.