[Haskell] Re: Strange behaviour of forkIO threads

[Simon Marlow]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Monday, May 15, 2006, 2:04:38 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>It sounds like you are just falling foul of the fact that GHC only
>>context switches when a thread is doing allocation; if it is sitting in
>>a loop not doing any allocation then you won't see a context switch.  In
>>GHC 6.6 you'll be able to work around this to some extent by using 2 
>>processors.
> 
> you want to say "2 OS threads executing Haskell program in parallel" ?
> i think that 6.6 will support this mode even on single-threading
> processors?

Yes, that's right.

Simon