Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Waiting for thread to finish

david48 wrote:

Threads won't give you a speedup unless you run the program on a multi-core/multi-proc machine.

That's actually not true. Threads allow you managing your IO blocking better, and not making IO block your whole program can certainly speed it up by a couple of orders of magnitude.

They help making the program simpler, IMHO.

They can. They can make it more complex, too :) Jules