[squeak-dev] interrupting COG?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Dec 12 22:19:12 UTC 2011


Yes there have been previous discussions about this. FWIW, I suspect that
this is not a "Cog bug". More likely it is existing behavior that gets
to be more of a problem as you run the image on a faster VM and/or a
faster computer.

Dave

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:15:08PM -0600, Chris Muller wrote:
> I vaguely remember a related discussion centered on the finalization process...
> 
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Casey Ransberger
> <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah that is a really bad bug. I wonder where one would go looking for it?
> >
> > On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm still using Cog VM's from 8 or 9 months ago (ever since it stopped
> >> working on Ubuntu) and it has the same trouble about interruptting --
> >> it really smarts sometimes!
> >>
> >> Actually, the trouble may be in the image since I think the 2357
> >> interpreter VM has the same trouble..
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>> the latest incarnations of the CogMT VM seem difficult to interrupt. IOW,
> >>> try doing 10000 factorial in a workspace and then cmd+. or alt+. or
> >>> whatever.
> >>>
> >>> Just about any compute-intensive situation seems to have this problem.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> L.
> >>>
> >>
> >



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