#8400: Migrate the RTS to use libuv (or libev, or libevent) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: schyler | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime System | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: 635, 7353 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by winter): * owner: simonmar => (none) * status: closed => new * resolution: wontfix => Comment: I'm researching on combining libuv with ghc's light weight thread recently, here's my initial design: https://github.com/winterland1989/stdio/issues/6. I'll report in this thread if i manage to have some benchmark numbers. If it works, The benifit is quite obvious: we don't have to deal with all the windows/encoding hacks and quirks anymore in base. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8400#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler