[Haskell-cafe] are forkIO threads event-driven?

[Aran Donohue]

Hi Cafe,

In GHC, if a thread spawned by forkIO blocks on some network or disk IO, is
the threading system smart enough not to wake the thread until an IO event
occurs on its input/output? The Control.Concurrent documentation doesn't
specify, and the previous discussions I could find on this topic are
out-of-date. There is a years-old GHC ticket, too, recently revived[2].

Put another way, is it possible yet to use forkIO for making a server to
handle tens of thousands of concurrent network connections? If not, what is
the best current Haskell/GHC way?

Thanks,
Aran

[1] http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/635
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