[Haskell-cafe] Timing in atom -- how consistent?

[Jason Dusek]

2010/1/1 Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins at gmail.com>:
> ...the events that occur within the Atom function will most
> likely vary in time from call to call, due to rules being
> scheduled at different periods.

  So the purpose of the "period" is really not so much to set a
  consistent execution time as it is to ensure non-interleaved
  execution for safe multi-threading?

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Jason Dusek