On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, kudah
I'd object to your implication that Haskell is completely ready for use in general soft real-time systems. I was unable to implement a multi-threaded application which does a some IO-work in background threads in a way so that its GUI won't die. Worker threads simply starve the GUI, because Haskell doesn't have thread priorities. And even if it had, it would still lag on Windows, due to lack of IO manager. Ezyang had, in fact, made a new scheduler, which seems to address the problem; and joeyadams tries to make IO-manager for windows, but all this isn't going to see the light of day for a while, at least until 7.8.1.
What did you use for the GUI? WxWidgets? I'm interested in this case because I develop a cross-platform Python GUI application and would like to see how a Haskell implementation would behave. -- Carlo Hamalainen http://carlo-hamalainen.net