[plt-scheme] solving the halting problem

The break button calls break-thread on the user's main thread (if the
usre has created more threads, they won't be broken). The kill button
shuts down the user's custodian, so you can simulate both of these
programmatically. (I'm not sure about the embedding answer, but I do
believe that when you're at the C level that the concurrency is
cooperative, so you only get breaks at points where you explicitly
yield control.)

Robby

On Jan 2, 2008 9:04 AM, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in how the "break" key in drscheme is implemented - does it
> kill the (PLT?) thread which the process is currently running in? Is this
> the best/only way of manually stopping computation?
>
> In the context of mzscheme and embedding - I assume the only way to do
> this is from inside the interpreter? i.e. there is no magic asynchronous
> version of scheme_eval_string which can be stopped.
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
>
> http://www.pawfal.org/dave/
>
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