On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 18:26 -0400, Aran Donohue wrote: > Hi Cafe, > > > In GHC, if a thread spawned by forkIO blocks on some network or disk > IO, is the threading system smart enough not to wake the thread until > an IO event occurs on its input/output? The Control.Concurrent > documentation doesn't specify, and the previous discussions I could > find on this topic are out-of-date. There is a years-old GHC ticket, > too, recently revived[2]. > > > Put another way, is it possible yet to use forkIO for making a server > to handle tens of thousands of concurrent network connections? If not, > what is the best current Haskell/GHC way? > > > Thanks, > Aran >
IIRC yes - they explicitly waits for read (waitForRead or something like that) on GHC. Regards
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