Fix GarbageCollect policy for corner cases (#1696) #10204

Job	Run time
Typos Check	4s
markdown_lint	4s
Lints and doc tests on ubuntu-latest	1m 8s
Unit tests on ubuntu-latest	27m 57s
Unit tests on windows-latest	34m 35s
Unit tests on macos-13	15m 58s
Unit tests on macos-14	14m 2s
Lints and doc tests on windows-latest	4m 3s
Lints and doc tests on macos-13	1m 51s
Lints and doc tests on macos-14	1m 21s
Memory leak checks	0s
CI status checks	1s
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