Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxHaskell and forkIO or forkOS

[Eric Y. K. <eri...@gm...>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 15:55:07 +0100, mac...@gm... wrote:
> If the only restriction here is that all the GUI updates should happen
> on the main OS thread, doesn't it mean that Haskell (green) threads
> spawned through forkIO are fine, because they execute on the same OS
> thread? Or does wxHaskell introduce additional restrictions?

I'm not the best person to ask, but I will note that Haskell's very
lightweight threads may be divided up among one or more OS thread
(if you enable the multi-threaded runtime).  A Haskell thread may also
be passed around from one OS thread to another.

See the Word of the Month in http://www.well-typed.com/blog/53

-- 
Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>