[Chicken-hackers] force-primordial: proposal of a compromise solution - was Re: slow polling

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

Am 24.02.2016 um 10:21 schrieb Jörg F. Wittenberger:
> Am 24.02.2016 um 10:15 schrieb Jörg F. Wittenberger:
>> Am 24.02.2016 um 09:29 schrieb address@hidden:
>>>> I've done some tests and I was able to get strange behaviour from the
>>>> scheduler, see 
>>>> http://paste.call-cc.org/paste?id=d9e4c5b8f8473fd1114dcec56c9c8a079b252362
>>>> However, none of these behaved any different under CHICKEN 4.9.0.1
>>>> or 4.10.0, so it's not strictly speaking a regression that MUST be fixed
>>>> before 4.11.
> 
> However: it appears to me that there is nobody who can explain why we
> need this function to be there.  Probably it had a reason in some very
> early version of chicken.  But Felix: do you recall?
> 
> At this time it is IMHO just one more bug.  A bug which bites.  Why not
> fix it?

Thinking twice: how about a compromise solution:

Remove ##sys#force-primordial from the 'hide' list in scheduler.scm.

This would allow me to use mutate-procedure! in my code to overwrite it
to get rid of the problem.  Much better than asking people to install a
modified chicken.

Cheers

/Jörg