[Haskell-cafe] Re: Threads with high CPU usage

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Alistair,

Monday, December 22, 2008, 7:28:03 PM, you wrote:

> safe). I also was not aware of unsafe calls blocking other threads.

they don't to it directly. but without -threaded +RTS -N (or forkOS)
there is only 1 OS thread that runs all haskell threads. unsafe call
blocks it untill call finished, while safe call allows to reuse it for
other haskell threads execution. i've attached old ghc commentary on
this topic, although things may be significantly changed ATM


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Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
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