[REBOL] Re: Recycle Question
From: dockimbel:free at: 9-Nov-2001 20:23
Hi Tim,
Here is how i think it works :
A Garbage Collection is automatically done by Rebol whenever it judges that
there're too much unreferenced values.
You can force a garbage collection by calling 'recycle when you think that
a GC would be usefull.
'recycle/off will switch off the automatic mode. No garbage collection will
occur until you call 'recycle explicitly or get back to automatic mode with
'recycle/on. This mode can be usefull if you have a critical part in your code
and want to be sure that you won't be interrupted by a GC. Personnaly, i've not
yet faced such case. :)
You can see some GC stats in system/stats/recycle. (use %mem-stats.r from the
library to interpret those values or %mem-watch.r from my REB-site)
HTH,
-DocKimbel
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