On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:02:59AM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > That's where retryWith would help. Right now I am using something named > autonomous transactions: > > autonomously :: Bool -> STM a -> STM () > > This basically forks a new thread to perform the given transaction > outside of the current transaction.
Forgot to explain this Bool parameter: it controls whether the enclosing transaction is waiting for the autonomous transaction to finish. I don't really like this idea, but it allowed to gain some small efficiency advantage, decreasing the number of retries. Best regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
