[squeak-dev] The broken user interrupt, or the saga of 100000 factorial.

Fri Dec 16 02:48:36 UTC 2011

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:33:22 +0100 (CET)
Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Christopher Oliver wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that the currently running process is interrupted. After 
> GC (which happens often during calculations with LargeIntegers) this is 
> likely to be the finalization process.

That's my reasoning as well given that factorial generates a lot of garbage bignums.
Nonetheless, alt-. perhaps shouldn't hit that.  It seems we need to be smarter than
Processor>>preemptedProcess.

-- 
Christopher Oliver <current.input.port at gmail.com>