This seems like a bug in GHC. But it has nothing to do with MVars.  I've 
narrowed this down and filed a bug report here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7528

Timothy


---------- Původní zpráva ----------
Od: Yuras Shumovich <[email protected]>
Datum: 24. 12. 2012
Předmět: Re: [Haskell-cafe] multi-thread and lazy evaluation

"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
(http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/browser/rts/PrimOps.cmm#L1358)

Yuras"
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