On 17 February 2011 00:46, Felipe Almeida Lessa <felipe.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk....@gmail.com> wrote: >> I started working on a hopefully even more efficient timeout that uses >> the new GHC event manager. >> >> The idea is that instead of forking a thread which delays for the >> timeout period after which it throws a Timeout exception, I register a >> timeout with the event manager. When the timeout fires the event >> manager will throw the Timeout exception. > > Doesn't this version need unsafeUnmask?
The unsafeUnmask was needed to ensure that throwing a ThreadKilled exception to the timeout thread won't block. Since this version doesn't have a timeout thread anymore we don't need the unsafeUnmask. Bas _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
