[Haskell-cafe] concurrent haskell: thread priorities

[Thomas DuBuisson]

>
> It seems like we could get some priority based scheduling (and still be
> slackers) if we allow marked green threads to be strictly associated with a
> specific OS thread (forkChildIO?).


I think you want the GHC-only GHC.Conc.forkOnIO

Suggestions like this are more motivation for the suggestion [1] to adopt a
re-engineered / haskell-based RTS [2].

Tom

[1]
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/7itaz/simple_robust_maintainable_rts_for_ghc_io_pdf/
[2] http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~lipeng/homepage/papers/lmpjt07hw.pdf
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