[Haskell-cafe] Concurrency strategy for 2 threads and rare events

[Yves Parès]

Why do you think it's a lot? MVar are a teeny tiny and convenient primitive
of communication, and I don't see why they wouldn't suit your need.
Sure a throwTo would do the trick... But they're is "do the trick" and "do
the job", you see?

Using STM and TVars *would* be kind of overkill.


2012/2/8 JP Moresmau <jpmoresmau at gmail.com>

> Hello, I'm wondering what's the best strategy to use in the following
> scenario:
> - 2 threads
>  - One perform some work that will take time, possibly go on forever
>  - Another waits for user input (like commands from the keyboard)
> that affects thread 1 (causing it to stop, in the simplest case)
>
> I've read a bit on MVar and channels, but they seem to be a lot for
> cases where the reading thread block for input. In my case, I expect
> to have "something" that thread 2 updates when an event occur, and
> thread 1 checks it regularly. So thread 1 should not block, but should
> check "is there something" and there is, act on it, otherwise continue
> doing what it was currently doing. I suppose I could just tryTakeMVar
> on a MVar, but is there something more adapted to my needs?
>
> Thanks!
>
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