On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 16:16 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> The real question is, does this mean that GHC is stopping the world every 
> time it puts an MVar?

No, GHC rts only locks the MVar itself.
See here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/browser/rts/PrimOps.cmm#L1358

Yuras


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