[REBOL] Re: Recycle Question
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 9-Nov-2001 11:19
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:23:15PM +0100, Nenad Rakocevic wrote:
> 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
Thank you DocKimbel!
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