It has been requested from time to time, but a lot of things would have to change to make this possible. So yes, I'll probably offer REPLs at some point, but it isn't a short-term goal.
Yes, that is correct. TIO is merely a family of online interpreters. That's usually enough for me, but I realize everyone's use case is a bit different.
@Dennis Hi @Dennis -- Sorry to disappear on you last week and thanks for trying the other configuration as well. My impression is that we've pushed this about as far as we can for the time being given the limitations of the sandbox, but I'll let you know if anyone on my team has an insight that I'm not seeing at present. Thanks for helping us get it this far!
@Dennis AFAIK, it's just because we tend to build large binaries due to the need to bundle in support for parallelism, communication, etc. But I'd be curious to look into it more on our side and make sure that there's nothing else inflating it unnaturally. If you're bumping it just for this case and would prefer not to make it that big, I wouldn't do so just for the sake of supporting this gasnet option, particularly given how fragile it is at node counts of 3+...
@Brad Yes, I've increased it just for Chapel, but I don't think it will cause problems. I'll commit the current build script (CHPL_COMM_SUBSTRATE=smp) to GitHub now.