[Haskell-cafe] Need a concurrency advice

[Dinh Tien Tuan Anh]

Hi,
Basically, my program has 7 threads for 7 rules

Rule1
Rule2
..
..
..


and they all use pattern-mattching (a rule MUST be evaluated by a thread)

The problem is there are some overlapping rules, which match the same 
pattern and diifferent rules are likely to give different results (one rule 
might give a result, others might loop forever).

Also, for a particular pattern, there's at least one matching rule and there 
may be some rule looping forever (try to evaluate a "bottom" _|_)

Im thinking of getting a list of all the applicable rules for a pattern, 
then hopefully can choose the best rule out of it.  But we have no control 
over the scheduling of threads, so dont know when a thread finishs its 
evaluation (if it is applicable rule) or it just never terminates (rule that 
tries evaluating a _|_)

So any ideas ?

TuanAnh

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