GHC now has a Wiki http://cvs.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki, so I've started a new page to give pointers to material on concurrent programming using GHC. (The link is near the bottom.) Please add to it. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Bulat Ziganshin | Sent: 09 December 2005 07:07 | To: Scherrer, Chad | Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] STM reference? | | Hello Chad, | | Friday, December 09, 2005, 3:09:29 AM, you wrote: | | SC> Can anyone suggest some references to learn how to program using GHC | SC> with threads? I've read a little bit about STM, but it's still pretty | SC> mysterious to me. Is this the best approach to take? I've never used | SC> threads in any language, but monads are fairly comfortable for me. | | STM is just additional instrument, you can completely avoid it (as we | had do until 6.4 release). Below is a list of papers related to | imperative programming in Haskell. first contains pragmatic | introduction in this world, including all concurrency stuffs, second | is about an real high-concurrency application designed by GHC team. | other papers is of more theoretical (and more strict) character | | Tackling the awkward squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language | calls in Haskell | [http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf/markto berdorf.ps.gz] | Writing High-Performance Server Applications in Haskell, Case Study: A Haskell Web Server, | [http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/web-server.ps.gz] | [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/concurrent-haskell.ps.gz] | [http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/conc-ffi.pdf] | The Concurrent Haskell Foreign Function Interface | [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/threads.ps.gz] | Asynchronous Exceptions in Haskell [http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/async.ps.gz] | [http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/stm/stm.pdf] | [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/except_ps.gz] | Imperative Functional Programming [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/imperative.ps.gz] | | | | -- | Best regards, | Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com | | | | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe