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20.1.3 Other Functions

`heapmin`()
  Force the `malloc()` heap to clean itself up and return unused blocks to the operating system. This only works on Windows NT. On failure, this raises `IOError`.

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Release 2.1.2, documentation updated on January 16, 2002.