Concurrency demos/Simple producer and consumer
From HaskellWiki
A simple example of a producer thread, performing IO events, and passing them over a Chan, to a consumer thread, which processes the events as they arrive (in a pure manner).
The interesting point to note is that Chans abstract over unsafeInterleaveIO, and allow for pure processing of streams of external events.
import Data.Char import Control.Concurrent import Control.Concurrent.Chan main = do c <- newChan cs <- getChanContents c -- a lazy stream of events from eventReader forkIO (producer c) -- char producer consumer cs where -- thread one: the event producer producer c = forever $ do key <- getChar writeChan c key -- thread two: the lazy consumer consumer = mapM_ print . map shift where shift c | isAlpha c = chr (ord c + 1) | otherwise = c forever a = a >> forever a
And running it:
$ ghc -O -threaded A.hs -o a $ ./a a 'b' '\n' b 'c' '\n' d 'e' '\n'
