Function setpause

3rd/lua-5.4.3/src/lgc.c:1457–1468

** Set the "time" to wait before starting a new GC cycle; cycle will ** start when memory use hits the threshold of ('estimate' * pause / ** PAUSEADJ). (Division by 'estimate' should be OK: it cannot be zero, ** because Lua cannot even start with less than PAUSEADJ bytes). */

** because Lua cannot even start with less than PAUSEADJ bytes).
*/
static void setpause (global_State *g) {
  l_mem threshold, debt;
  int pause = getgcparam(g->gcpause);
  l_mem estimate = g->GCestimate / PAUSEADJ;  /* adjust 'estimate' */
  lua_assert(estimate > 0);
  threshold = (pause < MAX_LMEM / estimate)  /* overflow? */
            ? estimate * pause  /* no overflow */
            : MAX_LMEM;  /* overflow; truncate to maximum */
  debt = gettotalbytes(g) - threshold;
  if (debt > 0) debt = 0;
  luaE_setdebt(g, debt);
}


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