[GHC] #12999: Investigate use of floating-point arithmetic in I/O Event-handler

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#12999: Investigate use of floating-point arithmetic in I/O Event-handler
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        Reporter:  hvr               |                Owner:
            Type:  task              |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.2.1
       Component:  libraries/base    |              Version:  8.0.1
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Comment (by winter):

 Recently when i'm digging into RTS's code, this design confused me too.
 After some research it seems there's a much better plan:
 [https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28vev9/announcing_psqueues_faster_priority_search_queues/cif87km/].
 I'll looking into it when i got time.

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