On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, kudah <kudahkuka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd object to your implication that Haskell is completely ready for > use in general soft real-time systems. I was unable to implement a > multi-threaded application which does a some IO-work in background > threads in a way so that its GUI won't die. Worker threads simply > starve the GUI, because Haskell doesn't have thread priorities. And > even if it had, it would still lag on Windows, due to lack of IO > manager. Ezyang had, in fact, made a new scheduler, which seems to > address the problem; and joeyadams tries to make IO-manager for > windows, but all this isn't going to see the light of day for a while, > at least until 7.8.1. > What did you use for the GUI? WxWidgets? I'm interested in this case because I develop a cross-platform Python GUI application and would like to see how a Haskell implementation would behave. -- Carlo Hamalainen http://carlo-hamalainen.net
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