[Haskell-cafe] concurrency vs. I/O in GHC

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 10/22/10 19:16 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Monday, October 18, 2010, 8:15:42 PM, you wrote:
>> If anyone is listening, I would very much like for there to be a
>> mechanism by which external functions can be called "unsafe"-ly, but
>> without blocking all other Haskell threads.  I have code that does this:
> 
> +RTS -N2

I think they mean "please don't conflate `reentrant' with `blocking' in the
FFI".

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