[Haskell-cafe] Parallel cooperative multithreading?

[Ketil Malde]

Benjamin Ylvisaker <benjaminy at fastmail.fm> writes:

> The paper discusses implementations in Lua, C++ and C, but I think
> Haskell could be an awesome substrate for such a framework.  Has anyone
> thought about this?

I'm not convinced this will be better than using STM - the critique
against STM seems (as always) not to apply to implementations where
transactional data are segregated by the type system.  I'm not sure
about the non-composability of retry and orElse that the authors refer
to, anybody know?

-k
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