What's a good repository to park the source in? I don't really plan on maintaining this, but want to offer it up for community hacking. Heard there's a git repository floating around, but I'm a total git newbie...
I keep getting "fatal: sha1 file '<stdout>' write error (Bad file descriptor)" when I try to git-push to the wiki repository, so if someone for whom git works wants to grab the tarball and import it, feel free.
Fixed the hanging. Was kinda a fun fix too...manually CPS'd the loading of the libraries and then inserted a call to window.setTimeout after each iteration, which gives the browser's event loop a chance to run.
I considered it - there was a point where I thought "Wouldn't it be cool if I implemented Cheney-on-the-MTA in JavaScript?" JavaScript doesn't have setjmp/longjmp, but it can be faked with exceptions. But I wasn't sure about the garbage-collection aspect, since you don't have the same fine-grained control over memory that you do in C, and I was afraid that just holding onto the continuation closure would accidentally capture the whole rest of the stack (because of arguments.caller), trading a stack overflow for a massive memory leak. And since I didn't want to spend too much time on the project, I decided to punt on the whole thing.
I think the setTimeout trampoline is better anyways - in addition to cleaning everything up, it also gives the browser's event loop a chance to run, so you don't risk locking up the browser.
I wanted to do the same thing in Lua, but I finally thought it was too much work... Since it can be done with Javascript, I guess I'll finally give it a try... You know, just to understand better how it does work...
