[Haskell-cafe] Re: Concurrency questions

[apfelmus]

Andrew Coppin wrote:
> 2. You have to take the data out of an MVar to read it. In other words, 
> only 1 thread can read an MVar at once [by design]. This isn't truly a 
> problem in the current case, but it's irritating in principle that I 
> can't make it so that once the cell is written, multiple threads can 
> read it simultaneously...

This is also known as I-structures i.e. IVar. I think you can simulate 
them via MVar with the  readMVar  function?


Regards,
apfelmus