Re: Userdata environment

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:
> Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> > Is there a way for an application to find out current values of pause and 
> > step?
> > For instance, some library function may want to change these values before 
> > doing its work and restore them afterwards.
>
> This won't necessarily work. The collector thresholds are only
> recalculated during the transition to the pause state. And this
> may happen at any GC step (which could be outside your code).

You're right of course.
I was thinking about single-thread applications, where once my 
(memory-intensive) task gets control, it won't release it until it ends. 
But if this won't always work, then there's little point in trying to 
save and restore GC parameters.

> BTW: Shmuel, the time/timezone on your desktop is still wrong. :-)

I've noticed that timestamps of my posts are offset (after we changed 
several days ago to summer daylight saving time). I just didn't know it 
required some actions from my part other than adjusting the computer 
clock. Should I now manually correct my timezone from GMT+02:00 to 
GMT+03:00 ?
[thanks for letting me know!]

--
Shmuel