thread priorities?

[Simon Marlow]

On 31 March 2006 10:24, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello Simon,
> 
> Friday, March 31, 2006, 12:24:23 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>> threadSetPriority :: ThreadID -> Int -> IO ()
> 
>> I'd rather not, if we can avoid it.  The only rationale I'll offer is
>> that we don't have it in GHC, and people manage to do a lot without
>> priorities.  Priorities come with a whole can of worms that I'd
>> rather not deal with.
> 
> it was requested by Joel Reymont, and he even give us information how
> that is implemented in Erlang, together with hint to assign higher
> priorities to consuming threads.

Yes, but the Erlang implementation doesn't do anything about priority
inversion.  Also, I don't think Joel really wanted priorities, his
problem could have been solved by using bounded channels.

Cheers,
	Simon