Simon, Thanks for the response.
The doc I was referring to is the library haddock doc for Control.Concurrent. Seth On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:41:52 +0100 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seth Kurtzberg wrote: > > I have a related question. The docs state that in some environments O/S > > threads are used when the -threaded flag is used with ghc, and non-O/S > > threads are used otherwise (presumably these are non-preemptive). Does > > this apply as well to the worker threads that are the subject of this email? > > It sounds like the docs are a bit unclear. Which bit of doc in > particular are you referring to? > > forkIO always creates a lightweight thread. With -threaded, if a thread > makes a safe foreign call, then that call might execute concurrently > with other threads, because another OS thread (a worker thread) takes > over in the runtime. In the HEAD (which will be 6.6), we now allow > multiple OS threads in the runtime, so you also get to run multiple > Haskell threads simultaneously, which is particularly useful if you have > more than one CPU. > > Cheers, > Simon > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
