Hello Simon, Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7:05:04 PM, you wrote: >> 1. Might readMVar really be computationally expensive under heavy load, >> (with all it's wonderful blocking features)? How much (approximately) more >> expensive, comparing to a assembler's "mov"?
> Probably 10-100 times more expensive than a mov, depending on the cache > state. many years ago, with ghc 6.6 and duron-1000, i had million or two of withMVar per second. anyway, this sort of things is easier to test herself -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe