[GHC] #7606: Stride scheduling for Haskell threads with priorities

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#7606: Stride scheduling for Haskell threads with priorities
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    Reporter:  ezyang            |       Owner:  ezyang          
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  7.8.1           
   Component:  Runtime System    |     Version:  7.7             
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Comment(by ezyang):

 Here is an alternate patch, which uses sorted linked lists. It is mostly
 interesting because it also exhibits the same slowdown as the original
 patch, even though it should hypothetically act the same way as the
 original scheduler (except for some constant overhead.)

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7606#comment:12>
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