6 Nov
2007
6 Nov
'07
2:53 p.m.
Don Stewart wrote:
andrewcoppin:
Somebody correct me here - I was under the impression that you only ever need forkIO if you're doing something strange with FFI, and usually you just want fork?
That's incorrect. forkIO is *the* basic threading primitive for fast, light Haskell threads. You might be thinking of 'forkOS' -- that's for weird FFI strangeness.
Yeah, I think you're right. (Hmm... Is there even a function named just "fork"?)