[Haskell-cafe] Re: Waiting for thread to finish

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 13:38 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>> But wait, there's more!  If you're using the threaded RTS, you  
>> often need to know how many threads you can run concurrently, for  
>> example to explicitly split up a compute-bound task.  This value  
>> is exposed at runtime by the numCapabilities variable in the  
>> GHC.Conc module.
>>
>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base-3.0.0.0/ 
>> GHC-Conc.html#v%3AnumCapabilities
>>
>> This variable is new in GHC 6.8.1 (thanks, Simon!), so don't try  
>> to use it with an older release.
>
> Hmm... I was *sure* this was exposed in Control.Concurrent  
> already... but, apparently, no. It seems you can only get at it  
> from GHC.Conc. That's kind of a pitty... oh well! ;-)

It's internal implementation foo; why would it be part of an  
interface intended to be reasonably portable?

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