A bug was introduced in the previous commit that led to miscompilations
in the time.Sleep function when the scheduler was disabled, because
time.Sleep (implemented in the runtime) tried to switch to the scheduler
stack.
This commit restores the binary size of most examples to what it was
before, but still reduces static RAM consumption (.bss) slightly. This
gives me some confidence that it does indeed fix the introduced bug.
This scheduler is intended to live along the (stackless) coroutine based
scheduler which is needed for WebAssembly and unsupported platforms. The
stack based scheduler is somewhat simpler in implementation as it does
not require full program transform passes and supports things like
function pointers and interface methods out of the box with no changes.
Code size is reduced in most cases, even in the case where no scheduler
scheduler is used at all. I'm not exactly sure why but these changes
likely allowed some further optimizations somewhere. Even RAM is
slightly reduced, perhaps some global was elminated in the process as
well.
Ayke van Laethem