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

[Johan Tibell]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:42 AM, John Lask <jvlask at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Re event library and merge into haskell base: has any thought gone into the
> "windows" version of the library. Last I looked it was very unix centric -
> the windows api is very different. I believe it will require major rework to
> abstract the commonalities and deal efficiently with the
> differences.
>
> I suspect any talk of a merge is premature.
>

Windows is already treated specially in the RTS so we can improve the I/O
manager for *nix users without affecting Windows users. We're not against
adding Windows support to the event library but it's unlikely to happen
unless someone volunteers to do it.

Cheers,
Johan
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