So here's what I don't understand: we make a non-blocking call to
gtk+'s
main loop
So far, so good.
(which makes a blocking call in a new OS thread).
With (the current version of) GHC's threaded RTS, there's only one OS
thread involved until you spawn a second thread (with forkIO or
forkOS).
S
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 14:55, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | I'm thinking about how to make threaded Haskell program work nicely
> with Gtk+ (the widget toolkit) and whether the new threaded rts will
> help or not.
> | Would bound threads help? I'm not sure I understand the idea very
> well.
>
> Tha
| I'm thinking about how to make threaded Haskell program work nicely
with
| Gtk+ (the widget toolkit) and whether the new threaded rts will help
or
| not.
|
...
|
| Would bound threads help? I'm not sure I understand the idea very
well.
That's *exactly* what the bound-threads idea is for. It's
