About the program below, someone (I think Simon Marlow) said that if I run it for long enough, I'll see "a"s rather than "b"s. I would like to know for how long I will have to wait, since 2 hours were not enough to see it switching from "b"s to "a"s.
main = forkIO a >> b where a = putStrLn "a" >> a b = putStrLn "b" >> b
Thanks, Andre Furtado ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Pledger <Tom.Pledger@peace.com> To: <haskell@haskell.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:24 AM Subject: Concurrent Haskell (Ops...)
Andre W B Furtado writes: : | import Concurrent | | main :: IO() | main = let loop ch = putStr(ch) >> loop ch in | forkIO (loop "a") >> loop "z" | | But this program prints only 'z's, and no 'a's. I was surprised by | this, since GHC uses preemptive multitasking, not cooperative | multitasking. Does anyone knows what's going wrong?
By my count, this is now a TAQ (thrice asked question). :-)
http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org/msg01599.html
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