[Haskell-cafe] FFI - Approaches to C/C++

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, kudah <kudahkukarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd object to your implication that Haskell is completely ready for
> use in general soft real-time systems. I was unable to implement a
> multi-threaded application which does a some IO-work in background
> threads in a way so that its GUI won't die. Worker threads simply
> starve the GUI, because Haskell doesn't have thread priorities. And
> even if it had, it would still lag on Windows, due to lack of IO
> manager. Ezyang had, in fact, made a new scheduler, which seems to
> address the problem; and joeyadams tries to make IO-manager for
> windows, but all this isn't going to see the light of day for a while,
> at least until 7.8.1.
>

What did you use for the GUI? WxWidgets?

I'm interested in this case because I develop a cross-platform Python GUI
application and would like to see how a Haskell implementation would behave.

-- 
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net
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