[Haskell-cafe] More threading confusion

[Robert Dockins]

On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Creighton Hogg wrote:

> Good afternoon Haskellers,
>
> So I'm trying to understand how STM works, and wrote a quick  
> 'eating philosophers' example to see if I understood how it's  
> supposed to work.
> The problem is that while it executes, it doesn't appear to *do*  
> anything.
>
> Did I completely write things wrongheadedly or am I being bitten by  
> something more subtle?

 From a quick read, it looks like your program doesn't produce any  
output until a philosopher finishes 10000 think/eat iterations.   
Something tells me that could take awhile....



Rob Dockins

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