Hello Simon, Friday, March 31, 2006, 12:24:23 PM, you wrote:
threadSetPriority :: ThreadID -> Int -> IO ()
I'd rather not, if we can avoid it. The only rationale I'll offer is that we don't have it in GHC, and people manage to do a lot without priorities. Priorities come with a whole can of worms that I'd rather not deal with.
it was requested by Joel Reymont, and he even give us information how that is implemented in Erlang, together with hint to assign higher priorities to consuming threads. I personally also want to had priorities, in order to run my I/O thread anytime when previous I/O operation is completed, in order to raise overall program performance I also don't see principal implementation problems - instead of round-robin selecting of next thread to run, it should be some more complex structure -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com