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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