[Haskell-cafe] Threading and FFI

[Yves Parès]

Hello!

I was wondering: is the Haskell default runtime (that which uses only one
processor) scheduler able to interrupt a thread which is currently calling
to a C function in order to enable another haskell thread to progress?
I think it can't, because I have starvation problems when I have a thread
which calls inside its loop to a C function which makes a little "sleep".

BTW, what is the portable way to sleep a thread in Haskell ?
Control.Concurrent.threadDelay is "GHC only".

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Yves Parès

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