Now that I'm starting to write a real async scheduler on top of Wren's
basic fiber API, I have a better feel for what it needs. It turns out
run() is not it.
- Remove run() methods.
- Add transfer() which leaves the caller of the invoked fiber alone.
- Add suspend() to return control to the host application.
- Add Timer.schedule() to start a new independently scheduled fiber.
- Change Timer.sleep() so that it only transfers control to explicitly
scheduled fibers, not any one.
Most of the pieces are there:
- You can declare a foreign class.
- It will call your C function to provide an allocator function.
- Whenever a foreign object is created, it calls the allocator.
- Foreign methods can access the foreign bytes of an object.
- Most of the runtime checking is in place for things like subclassing
foreign classes.
There is still some loose ends to tie up:
- Finalizers are not called.
- Some of the error-handling could be better.
- The GC doesn't track how much memory a marked foreign object uses.
This adds a "timer" module to the CLI that provides a Timer class with
a static sleep() method. Not the most exciting functionality in the
world, but it requires the full hunk of libuv integration:
- The CLI sets up libuv and runs the event loop.
- Added a new directory src/module for CLI modules.
- Updated all the make scripts to handle it.
- Reorganized some other CLI code.
- Add a script that downloads and compiles libuv.
- Hook that up to the Makefile so it pulls down libuv on build.
- Add a separate "vm" target that just builds the VM library and skips
libuv.
- Link to libuv when compiling the CLI.
- Update the XCode project to link to libuv too.
Linux and Windows support isn't done yet, but it should be pretty
straightforward to add to the Python script.
- Made it use primitives instead of foreign functions.
- This fixed an issue where the interpreter loop was running re-entrantly.
- Which in turn fixed a GC bug.
- Report a runtime error if the argument isn't a string.
- Report a runtime error if the source doesn't compile.
This makes it clear which files are part of the VM (i.e. the Wren library)
and which are part of the CLI. Makes a directory for the latter so it has
some room to grow.
This probably totally broke the VS project. If you can fix that, send me
a PR!
