On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 10:33 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Jonathan Cast wrote: > > An OS thread (Linux/Plan 9) stores: > > > > * Stack (definitely a stack pointer and stored registers (> 40 bytes on > > i686) and includes a special set of page tables on Plan 9) > > * FD set (even if it's the same as the parent thread, you need to keep a > > pointer to it > > * uid/euid/gid/egid (Plan 9 I think omits euid and egid) > > * Namespace (Plan 9 only; again, you need at least a pointer even if > > it's the same as the parent process) > > * Priority > > * Possibly other things I can't think of right now > > > > A Concurrent Haskell thread stores: > > > > * Stack > > * Allocation area (4KB) > > Allocation areas are per-CPU, not per-thread.
Didn't know/didn't think through that. Thanks! jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
