[Haskell-cafe] Re: concurrent haskell: thread priorities

[Neal Alexander]

Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
>     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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GHC.Conc.forkOnIO is helpful but doest work in this case - it doesn't 
attach them to the same OS thread.