Concurrency

[Taral]

On 4/3/06, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> the tasks for which state-threads work well for are IO bound
> multiplexing tasks, pthreads are better for CPU-bound tasks.

Why not make this explicit?

forkCPU :: IO () -> IO ()

On systems incapable of preemption, forkCPU = id. The semantics of
forkCPU is that the computation involved in the argument is
time-consuming and should not block other computations if possible.

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