On 08/06/2009 22:10, Maurício wrote:
This comes from an issue in haskell-beginner, (...)
For better or worse, this is something that people should not be
trying in the first place, (...)
Sure! That's what I sugested in the original question. I'm actually
just curious on why timer_create is used at all. This is probably
just a small detail in program initialization, and maybe a link to
some description of what happens on program initialization (specially
ghc generated binaries) behind the naive user view would do it.
timer_create is used in the RTS to create a regular tick signal. The
tick signal is used for various things: thread pre-emption, profiling,
deadlock detection, and idle-time GC,
Cheers,
Simon
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