[Haskell-cafe] memory issues

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Daniel,

Saturday, February 28, 2009, 6:20:09 PM, you wrote:
> But they would not be equivalent if stdout has to be locked for each output
> operation separately, but a file opened with openFile fp WriteMode  was
> locked then once and remained so until closed.

ghc Handles are locked for every operation, not for entire file
lifetime. it's done in order to make safe concurrent operations in
threads of the same program


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