Function

Summary

Starts a GC monitor.

Signature

start-gc-monitor screen => result

Arguments

screen

A screen.

Values

result

A boolean.

Description

The function start-gc-monitor starts a GC (Garbage Collector) monitor window on the screen screen .

result is t if it started a GC monitor, and nil if a GC monitorwas already running on screen .

Note that this works only on Motif/Lesstif.

On these platforms, start-gc-monitor is called automatically when the LispWorks IDE starts, but you can call stop-gc-monitor and start-gc-monitor any time.

See also

stop-gc-monitor