Hello Claude, Saturday, October 23, 2010, 11:57:23 PM, you wrote:
>> Is that true? The last time we discussed this in Haskell Cafe the >> conclusion I drew from the discussion was that unsafe foreign functions >> block the current thread but not any other thread. > The conclusion I drew was that "unsafe" foreign functions block the > current "capability" (OS thread) and any "threads" (Haskell forkIO etc) > currently scheduled on that capability, but other capabilities and > threads continue executing as normal. yes, it blocks entire capability but afaik only one haskell thread can be scheduled on some capability at any concrete moment -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
