'import ccall unsafe' and parallelism
Donn Cave
donn at avvanta.com
Thu Aug 14 16:21:11 UTC 2014
I'm no judge of what's true about safe and unsafe, but this account of
the system has at least to my ear the ring of authenticity:
http://blog.melding-monads.com/2011/10/24/concurrency-and-foreign-functions-in-the-glasgow-haskell-compiler/
The FFI section is short and readable.
With respect to whether "unsafe" does or does not block other threads,
I can never penetrate the verbiage about capabilities to know for sure
what to expect in practice, but when I checked, in practice, "unsafe"
blocks other threads. I use "safe" to avoid this.
Donn
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