12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
11:13 a.m.
On 08/06/2009 22:10, Maurício wrote:
This comes from an issue in haskell-beginner, (...)
For better or worse, this is something that people should not be trying in the first place, (...)
Sure! That's what I sugested in the original question. I'm actually just curious on why timer_create is used at all. This is probably just a small detail in program initialization, and maybe a link to some description of what happens on program initialization (specially ghc generated binaries) behind the naive user view would do it.
timer_create is used in the RTS to create a regular tick signal. The tick signal is used for various things: thread pre-emption, profiling, deadlock detection, and idle-time GC, Cheers, Simon