ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 10

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Wed Jun 4 08:51:14 EDT 2003


Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote,

> Minor nits: there's a footnote saying "Finalizers in Haskell cannot
> be savely [sic] realised without requiring support for pre-emptive
> concurrency".  I'd suggest dropping "pre-emptive": with cooperative
> concurrency it's perfectly safe to collect the finalizers in GC and fork
> them next time you're back in the IO monad (though it's not very timely).

True.  Thanks,
Manuel



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