[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 simonmar):

 Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the "slow" case you're just doing one more
 major GC than in the fast case, right?  The extra thread just pushed
 allocation over the threshold for the next GC.  If that's the case, then
 this is not a problem at all.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7606#comment:22>
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