[Haskell-cafe] forkIO preemption

[S. Alexander Jacobson]

When you forkIO and one of the threads blocks
(e.g. on a socket or a readchan), do execution
automatically resume on other threads and does the
blocked thread consume timeslices while it is
blocked?

In other words, is there any performance
penalty in setting timeslices very large in a
server app (where all I care about is throughput)?

-Alex-

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