RE: Concurrency, FFI status

2006-04-24 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22 April 2006 04:03, John Meacham wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:01:51AM -0400, Manuel M T Chakravarty > wrote: >> Concerning the issue of preemptive versus cooperative concurrency, I >> still think cooperative concurrency is pretty useless. Is there any >> non-toy application that actua

Re: Concurrency, FFI status

2006-04-21 Thread John Meacham
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:01:51AM -0400, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Concerning the issue of preemptive versus cooperative concurrency, I > still think cooperative concurrency is pretty useless. Is there any > non-toy application that actually uses Hugs' current cooperative > concurrency? A

Re: Concurrency, FFI status

2006-04-21 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Simon Marlow: > I have now summarised the concurrency proposal status, here: > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/haskell-prime/trac.cgi/wiki/Concurren > cy > > I have tried to summarise the various points that have arisen during the > discussion. If anyone feels they have been mis-paraphr

RE: Concurrency, FFI status

2006-04-14 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Good summary. I have made a few edits mainly to clarify what (I think) is being said. Under "cooperative or preemptive concurrency" I'd like someone two write down as precisely as possible what it means to say "the spec requires cooperative concurrency" or "the spec requires preemptive concurrenc