On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 00:10 +0200, Günther Schmidt wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > so ... I have a green light to call gtk from within a forkIO thread for as > long as I make sure that the rts is single threaded?
Yes and that works very nicely (with the cooperative scheduling trick described in the gtk2hs FAQ). > BTW: I was already strongly put off using unsafeInitGUIwForThreadedRTS but > thanks for the warning. > > Thus my back to my original question: Can I start either ghci or runghc > with a single-threaded rts so I don't have to compile the app every time I > want to check my really trick GUI code? No. The ghc binary itself (ghc, runghc, ghci) is linked using the threaded runtime system. That's a link-time choice, there's no way to turn it on/off at the command line (that might change in future with shared libs). Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
