Re: black hole detection and concurrency

2008-12-26 Thread Sterling Clover
I have a good theory on the latter symptom (the thread killed message). Sticking in some traces, as in my appended code, helped me to see what's going on. It seems to be exactly what you describe -- the variable v is permanently bound to the exception it evaluates to. Since the right hand

Fwd: black hole detection and concurrency

2008-12-26 Thread Conal Elliott
Thanks for the probing, Sterl. I'm afraid I'm stuck here. Without the more effective thread killing (in unamb), Reactive seems to be drowning in uselessly running threads. With improved thread killing, I get many of these false black holes, instead of computed values. I don't know whether this