| May I assume that, if/when a multithreaded RTS stabilises,
| the paradigms from parallell Haskell can easily be
| implemented on it ("easily" meaning that it'll probably happen)?
Parallelism is never "easy". But it'll certainly be easier.
s
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"Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | Ahem - how far would this be from a "real" multithreaded
> | implementation, i.e. one that could use a few OS threads to
> | take advantage of multiple CPUs in an SMP system?
> Not very far. We have had a working implementation of
> such a
| Ahem - how far would this be from a "real" multithreaded
| implementation, i.e. one that could use a few OS threads to
| take advantage of multiple CPUs in an SMP system?
Not very far. We have had a working implementation of
such a thing, but not in a robust releasable state.
S
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"Sigbjorn Finne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Yes, that's true at the moment, but it's something that we expect
>> to fix shortly. More precisely, Sigbjorn has been working on a
>> fix. It relies on using an OS thread to make a potentially-blocking
>> call, so it's a robust fix.
> Modulo set
"Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | The problem I think is with the lightweight thread implementation -
> | Win32 calls can (and will) block the OS thread that makes the call,
> | which blocks the entire system. Given that I'm wanting to write a
> | network server with a Win32 G
| The problem I think is with the lightweight thread implementation -
| Win32 calls can (and will) block the OS thread that makes the call,
| which blocks the entire system. Given that I'm wanting to write a
| network server with a Win32 GUI, this is obviously a Bad Thing.
Yes, that's true at
Try to open non modal window instead of modal
message box.
Are you known about Object I/O project? This is
complete package for building GUI for Windows. Maybe
this can help you. Sources are in CVS repository fptools/hslibs/object-io
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Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:44:22PM +1030, Antony Blakey ->
> Hi,
>I'm experimenting with GHC as a platform for writing a Win32 GUI
> application, and I've hit what I think is a brick wall.
>
> The problem I think is with the lightweight thread implementation -
> Win32 calls can (and will) bloc
