Implementation of "Scalable Event Handling for GHC"

tsuraan tsuraan at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 23:42:27 EST 2010


> It was integrated in GHC 7, released earlier this month.
>
>    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18297
>
>    > On POSIX platforms, there is a new I/O manager based on
>      epoll/kqueue/poll, which allows multithreaded I/O code to scale to
>      a much larger number (100k+) of threads
>
> -- Don

Ok, thanks!  Are there any caveats to know about, or any documentation
on the new manager?  Is it safe to assume that so long as I'm using
the standard threading and network/io libraries, I'll be using it
correctly?


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