Re: Proposal: Control.Concurrent.Async

On 08/06/12 10:37, Simon Marlow wrote:

I'd like to add a higher-level concurrency API to the base package.

How does this async package differ from monad-par, from a user's perspective? It seems that the latter is intended for pure computations and the implementation is more heavy weight. But it can be used for IO as well. The difference in API is essentially only that async lives in the IO monad, whereas monad-par has its own Par monad. Could and/or should one be implemented in terms of the other? Twan