There is no description of the MemoryCache Compact() method.

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Type of issue

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Description

There is no description of what this Compact() method does, why to use it, and when to use it.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.extensions.caching.memory.memorycache.compact?view=net-8.0-pp&devlangs=csharp&f1url=%3FappId%3DDev17IDEF1%26l%3DEN-US%26k%3Dk(Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory.MemoryCache.Compact)%3Bk(DevLang-csharp)%26rd%3Dtrue

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https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory/MemoryCache.xml

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[adamsitnik]

You are right, this method should be documented.

For now I can only refer you to the implementation that contains a comment that explains what it does:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/6accd39f5852f4a687903a3b19a2d4ac10c2f9e0/src/libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory/src/MemoryCache.cs#L525-L532