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

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

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.

Be sure to compile with -threaded.  Also note that GUI libraries often
want to run in a bound thread.


Greets,
Ertugrul

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