On 4/3/06, John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the tasks for which state-threads work well for are IO bound > multiplexing tasks, pthreads are better for CPU-bound tasks.
Why not make this explicit? forkCPU :: IO () -> IO () On systems incapable of preemption, forkCPU = id. The semantics of forkCPU is that the computation involved in the argument is time-consuming and should not block other computations if possible. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything." -- Gödel's Incompetence Theorem _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime