Phyx <loneti...@gmail.com> writes: > Oops, sorry, only just now seen this. It seems my overly aggressive filters > couldn't decide where to put the email :) > > I do agree to some extend with this. I'd prefer if I made a mistake for my > system not to hang. The one downside to this default though is that you > can't just hand a program over to user and have it run at full capabilities. > > If it possible to set this from inside a program? My guess is no, since by > the time you get to main the rts is already initialized? > > Would a useful alternative be to provide a compile flag that would change > the default? e.g. opt-in? Since now there is a small burden on the end user. > There exist two pretty good tools for accomplishing what you want,
1. Call Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities [1] from within your
application.
2. Use GHC's -with-rtsopts flag [2] to set the default RTS arguments
during compilation of your application.
Cheers,
- Ben
[1]
http://localhost:7000/file/opt/exp/ghc/roots/8.0.1/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1/html/libraries/base-4.9.0.0/Control-Concurrent.html#v:setNumCapabilities
[2]
http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide//phases.html?highlight=#ghc-flag--with-rtsopts
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