[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Wait for *either* MVar to be set

Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

... by spawning and killing two threads (which might be an expensive operation, I'm not sure)

pretty cheap in GHC -- they're not system threads

Am I wrong in this? If so, is this something that might be considered as a future enhancement in the GHC libraries and runtime?

Also, look at STM (e.g. TVars), which is designed to do what you want more directly, I think. (timeouts might still use the GHC-thread thing. Don't worry about its performance unless you're measurably suffering from it...) -Isaac