Greetings everybody, I happen to be a bit confused with regards to unsafe foreign imports and parallelism. Assume the following C function: foreign import ccall unsafe "cfun" cfun :: CInt -> IO () Now, cfun does some work: go xs = unsafePerformIO $ do forM_ xs $ cfun return $ somethingUnhealthy And I'd like to parallelize this: parMap rdeepseq go [costly,costly] However, due to the way ghc handles unsafe imports, namely block everything else whenever 'cfun' is called, I happen to have only one active 'go'. Lets assume 'cfun' is cheap and would suffer from 'ccall safe' more than I'd be willing to pay. Is there any fix possible? Viele Gruesse, Christian PS: The real problem happens to use a bunch of different judy arrays, each of which lives in its on thread; 300 judy arrays, 300 threads, each up to 20 million inserts. But I think the basic problem can be reduced to "how to parallelize 'ccall unsafe's.