[Haskell] announcing qtHaskell-1.1.1, the first preview release of qtHaskell

2007-12-24 Thread David Harley
For all interested in Haskell GUIs, there is now a first preview release of qtHaskell - a set of Haskell bindings for Trolltech's Qt available at http://qthaskell.sourceforge.net Any feedback, comments etc welcome Merry Christmas David Harley P.S. if anyone can get the system to build and work

Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-24 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
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Re: [Haskell] garbage collection of Concurrent Haskell threads?

2007-12-24 Thread Conal Elliott
Thanks, Simon. If I understand the mechanism you're describing, it discards readers of an empty MVar when there are no other references to the MVar *because* the MVar can never get written. And if there are other readers but no writers, then I'm guessing GC wouldn't know that, and none of the rea

RE: [Haskell] garbage collection of Concurrent Haskell threads?

2007-12-24 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
GHC already garbage-collects threads that are blocked on an MVar that is otherwise inaccessible (and hence cannot be updated). More precisely, GHC sends the thread an asynchronous exception (ThreadBlocked or something), so that it has a chance to clean up. So perhaps the GC you want is already