Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] catch exceptions in finalizers, remove dynamic resizing of finalizer vector

[Felix]

> However I'd welcome to expel the scheduler from the base
> system and instead have some simpler API, where I can register
> a continuation to wait for events from files, time, signals
> other threads and other resources.  The current scheduler
> as well as fictionally once based on zmq as suggested by <whom>
> on the list the other day should have an easy time to hook
> into this API.  ---  Quite a project IMHO.

Scheme-to-C had the interesting concept of "system tasks" where user
code could register period tasks that are called whenever the system
is idle and no input is available.


cheers,
felix