Excerpts from Magicloud Magiclouds's message of Wed Jan 16 00:32:00 -0800 2013: > Hi, > Just read a post about schedulers in erlang and go lang, which informed > me that erlang is preemptive and go lang is cooperative. > So which is used by GHC? From ghc wiki about rts, if the question is only > within haskell threads, it seems like cooperative.
Additionally, the current scheduler is round-robin with some heuristics for when threads get to "cut the line", so we do not have priorities for threads. I'm currently working on a patch which allows for more flexible scheduling. Edward _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users