[Haskell-cafe] Re: GHC concurrency runtime "breaks" every 497 (and a bit) days

Neil Davies wrote:

I've prototyped a fix for this issue which will now only wrap every 585,000 years or so. It also removes the 1/50th of a second timer resolution for the runtime. This means that the additional 20ms (or thereabouts) of delay in the wakeup has gone.

This means that GHC is now on a par with any other program, i.e. down to the resolution of the jiifies within the O/S.

I've done the non-Windows branch of the GHC.Conc - but I'll need some help with the windows branch.

Anyone out there able to help with the intricacies of Windows?

Thanks Neil, just submit your patch and we'll look into making similar changes on Windows. Cheers, Simon