Revise low level fiber semantics to play nicer with schedulers.
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.
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var main = Fiber.current
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var fiber = Fiber.new {
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IO.print("transferred")
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IO.print(main.transfer())
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IO.print("called")
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}
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fiber.transfer() // expect: transferred
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IO.print("main") // expect: main
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fiber.call() // expect: null
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// expect: called
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