[Haskell-cafe] Re: Bound threads

[Benjamin Franksen]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:20, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> writes:
> > Why is the main thread bound?
>
> I can answer myself: if the main thread is unbound, the end of the
> program can be reached in a different OS thread, which may be a
> problem if we want to return cleanly to the calling code.
>
> I've now implemented a threaded runtime in my language Kogut, based
> on the design of Haskell. The main thread is bound. The thread which
> holds the capability performs I/O multiplexing itself, without a
> separate service thread.
>
> Producer/consumer ping-pong is 15 times slower between threads
> running on different OS threads than on two unbound threads.

Which OS?

Ben