<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Hello Fellow Haskellers,</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I am not experienced with the FFI, but I have suspicions that Haskell's "mysql" package falls short in terms of its support for concurrency. A tiny bit of discussion has occurred here: </font><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">https://github.com/bos/mysql/issues/11</span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Since it appears that "mysql" is the de-facto binding for MySQL (see reverse dependencies at http://www.stackage.org/package/mysql), it seems that this lack has far-reaching effects on the Haskell ecosystem at large. What attracts many to Haskell is it's strengths in writing parallel/concurrent code, but it seems we lose this benefit when interacting with MySQL. I for one have a beautiful Haskell program using MySQL which I would love to push into production, but it's performance pales in comparison to a Python script that builds up calls to bash and actually achieves concurrency.</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">At this point I have not been able to gain traction for this problem, and since I'm not an experienced Haskell developer, my contributions are slow and tedious. I'm hoping that I can garner some help in the following:</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">1) Confirm or deny my suspicions as represented in the issue linked above</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">2) If they are confirmed to any degree, I hope for some help in working through the solution</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Please let me know if you would like to help in either of these ways! Even the smallest comments will be highly valued!</font></div><div><br></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span name="x"></span>
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