threads: Fork threads and wait for their result

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This package provides functions to fork threads and wait for their result, whether it's an exception or a normal value.

Besides waiting for the termination of a single thread this packages also provides functions to wait for a group of threads to terminate.

This package is similar to the threadmanager, async and spawn packages. The advantages of this package are:

  • Simpler API.

  • More efficient in both space and time.

  • No space-leak when forking a large number of threads.

  • Correct handling of asynchronous exceptions.

  • GHC specific functionality like forkOn and forkIOWithUnmask.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.1.0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.4, 0.4.0.1, 0.4.0.2, 0.5, 0.5.0.1, 0.5.0.2, 0.5.0.3, 0.5.1.0, 0.5.1.1, 0.5.1.2, 0.5.1.3, 0.5.1.4, 0.5.1.5, 0.5.1.6, 0.5.1.7, 0.5.1.8
Dependencies base (>=4.4 && <5), stm (>=2.1) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2010–2012 Bas van Dijk & Roel van Dijk
Author Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com> Roel van Dijk <vandijk.roel@gmail.com>
Maintainer Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com> Roel van Dijk <vandijk.roel@gmail.com>
Revised Revision 1 made by janus at 2023-03-14T21:04:30Z
Category Concurrency
Home page https://github.com/basvandijk/threads
Bug tracker https://github.com/basvandijk/threads/issues
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/basvandijk/threads.git
Uploaded by janus at 2022-08-22T22:09:23Z
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This package provides functions to fork threads and wait for their result, whether it's an exception or a normal value.

Besides waiting for the termination of a single thread this packages also provides functions to wait for a group of threads to terminate.

This package is similar to the threadmanager, async and spawn packages. The advantages of this package are:

  • Simpler API.

  • More efficient in both space and time.

  • No space-leak when forking a large number of threads.

  • Correct handling of asynchronous exceptions.

  • GHC specific functionality like forkOnIO and forkIOUnmasked.