[Haskell-cafe] Spurious program crashes

[Joel Reymont]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

> Are you sure it's safe to kill a thread which has already been killed?

It seems so from the docs.

> Why do you fork off the killing of the threads? Why not just run them
> in sequence?

Someone said that they read somewhere that killThread can block. I'm  
not gonna point any fingers at musasabi ;-).

> Also, I'd recommend refactoring the code a bit, write a function
> "parIO" which runs IO computations in parallell and then define
> timeout in terms of that.

I did this by stealing the timeout/either combinators from the  
Asynchronous Exceptions paper. It did not help a single bit.

	Joel

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