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 Tim Johnson wrote: > > Hi: > I'm looking at documenation on recycle. Since the default is > 'on, does any one know of reasons why someone would use 'recycle? > Thanks > -- > Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.johnsons-web.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
