Re: [Haskell-cafe] Faster timeout but is it correct?

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Bas van Dijk wrote:

On 19 February 2011 00:04, Bas van Dijk wrote:

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So, since the new implementation is not really faster in a representative benchmark and above all is buggy, I'm planning to ditch it in favour of the event-manager based timeout.

The patch is ready for review:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/4963/faster_timeout.dp...

Instead of defining registerTimeout :: EventManager -> Int -> (TimeoutKey -> TimeoutCallback) -> IO TimeoutKey include TimeoutKey in the TimeoutCallback type. Someone who better understands the exception masking parts could give you better feedback on that code. Johan