On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.zigans...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello John, > > Monday, October 18, 2010, 8:15:42 PM, you wrote: > > > If anyone is listening, I would very much like for there to be a > > mechanism by which external functions can be called "unsafe"-ly, but > > without blocking all other Haskell threads. I have code that does this: > > +RTS -N2 > This doesn't work, which was why the OP asked in the first place. When a thread calls an unsafe foreign function, it blocks everything until that function returns.
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