Re: [Haskell-cafe] Timing in atom -- how consistent?

2010/1/1 Tom Hawkins :

...the events that occur within the Atom function will most likely vary in time from call to call, due to rules being scheduled at different periods.

So the purpose of the "period" is really not so much to set a consistent execution time as it is to ensure non-interleaved execution for safe multi-threading? -- Jason Dusek