What is the difference between GetTotalAllocatedBytes and GetTotalMemory?

[bvbellomo]

Type of issue

Missing information

Description

What is the difference between GetTotalAllocatedBytes and GetTotalMemory? Descriptions seem similar, so why isn't this documented?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.gettotalallocatedbytes?view=net-9.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System/GC.xml

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09a1981d-348f-e7e6-a1e4-1a0304137acb

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[adamsitnik]

Descriptions seem similar, so why isn't this documented?

We don't compare all similar methods and types in our docs, as this would greatly increase their size. Imagine us comparing list vs array and so on.

When you go to https://copilot.microsoft.com/ and ask this question you get a nice answer: