patch applied (ghc): Remove the artifical cap on the number of workers

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Wed Aug 9 05:59:04 EDT 2006


Wed Aug  9 02:59:08 PDT 2006  Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>
  * Remove the artifical cap on the number of workers
  See #805.  This was here to catch bugs that resulted in an infinite
  number of worker threads being created.  However, we can't put a
  reasonable bound on the number of worker threads, because legitimate
  programs may need to create large numbers of (probably blocked) worker
  threads.  Furthermore, the OS probably has a bound on the number of
  threads that a process can create in any case.
  
  
  

    M ./rts/Task.c -10


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