FFI: number of worker threads?

[Simon Marlow]

Tony Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> 
>>New worker threads are spawned on as needed.  You'll need as many of
>>them as you have simultaneously-blocked foreign calls. If you have 2000
>>simultaneously-blocked foreign calls, you'll need 2000 OS threads to
>>support them, which probably won't work.
> 
> Does the RTS use select() to multiplex network IO instead of spawning
> threads?

Yes.

Cheers,
	Simon