ghci and ghc -threaded broken with pipes & forking

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:36:29AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:59:17PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > There seems to be a common misconception that forkOS is necessary to get 
> > certain kinds of concurrency, and forkIO won't do.  I don't know where this 
> > comes from: the documentation does seem to be quite clear to me.  The only 
> > reason to use forkOS is for interacting with foreign code that uses 
> > thread-local state; everytyhing else can be done with forkIO (and it is 
> > usually better to use forkIO).
> 
> >From reading the docs, it sounds like forkIO keeps everything in a
> single OS thread/process.  Doesn't this mean that a program that uses
> forkIO instead of forkOS loses out on SMP machines?

You can use e.g. +RTS -N2 to use 2 OS threads.


Thanks
Ian