Set up the state necessary to collect samples. We still need to add GC support for walking the sample set, and the compiler needs to register GC roots before safepoints as well. We also need primitives to expose the data to Factor for reporting.
It's not robust currently to raise an exception because a lot of our code that isn't already written with exceptions in mind breaks. Also, a signal is likely to be received by an FFI callback installed on the IO multiplexer, which will cause Factor to die since the callback cannot handle the exception. We need a more robust solution to dealing with SIGINT.
Also lay some groundwork for counting profile samples and reporting non-interrupting asynchronous signals.
Joe Groff
Erik Charlebois
Slava Pestov
Slava Pestov
Slava Pestov