On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 10:08 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:47 +0000, John Goerzen wrote:
- our "bound threads" design does not require the implementation to support lightweight threads, and hence doesn't let the programmer take advantage of them.
In my particular case, the C library isn't aware of threading at all. While it may be safe to call it from any arbitrary Haskell thread, it would not be safe to call it from two threads simultaneously.
That's ok. Without the threaded rts, you get just one OS thread being used to make the foreign calls.
Right, but let's say I do want to use the threaded RTS so I can use multiple OS threads; what should I be doing here?
That's harder. Simon and I have been talking about that and he has been suggesting a few experiments to try. Duncan