) off processes down each pass that can be
done in parallel. however, I have no idea what the effect of just
calling fork on the ghc runtime will be. both parent and child will
continue on compiling code, so it won't be immediatly followed by an
exec.
We provide System.Posix.forkProcess, which
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:15:45AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
We provide System.Posix.forkProcess, which is a controlled version of
fork. It probably works ok in the single-threaded runtime, but I'd say it's
probably slightly dubious in the threaded runtime especially if you're
planning on
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, John Meacham wrote:
on another topic, I ran across this old paper online which gives an
exceedingly clever method of implementing a functional language compiler
doing real garbage collection and efficient tail calls in portable C
each pass that can be
done in parallel. however, I have no idea what the effect of just
calling fork on the ghc runtime will be. both parent and child will
continue on compiling code, so it won't be immediatly followed by an
exec.
John
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