andrewcoppin: > Tim Docker wrote: > >Is it possible to use the forkIO primitive to cause pure computations > >to be evaluated in parallel threads? > > > > Somebody correct me here - I was under the impression that you only ever > need forkIO if you're doing something strange with FFI, and usually you > just want fork? >
That's incorrect. forkIO is *the* basic threading primitive for fast, light Haskell threads. You might be thinking of 'forkOS' -- that's for weird FFI strangeness. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
