(reclaim): nil expr
Reclaim is the user level call to the garbage collector. Active data in the
heap is made contiguous and all tagged pointers into the heap from active
local stack frames, the binding stack and the symbol table are relocated. If
*gc is t, prints some statistics. Increments gcknt* and updates gctime*.
(known-free-space): integer expr
Returns the number of items available in the heap.
(free-bps): integer expr
Returns the number of items available in the BPS (Binary Program Space).
*gc = [Initially: t]
switch
*Gc controls the printing of garbage collector messages. If nil no indication
of garbage collection occurs. If non-nil various messages will be displayed.
As the example shows, the amount of time (in milliseconds), required to do the garbage
collection, the number of items recovered, and the number of items available in the heap are
displayed. The first number which follows GC represents the value of gcknt*. The inclusion of
the date into the message has been found useful for calculations which take extremely
long.
gctime* = [Initially: 0]
global
The total time (in milliseconds) spent in garbage collection. When the
garbage collector is invoked, the time spent performing the collection is
added to the value of gctime*
gcknt* = [Initially: 0]
global
Records the number of times that the garbage collector has been invoked.
Gcknt* may be reset to another value to record counts incrementally, as
desired.
