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Re:GHC 7.8.1 released by dbaupp on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @07:28PM (#7563231)
Doesn't calling C code interact poorly with green threading? (I assume that handlers that make it act slightly sanely exist, but I imagine the cost of setting up native threads for FFI is rather high.)
Re:GHC 7.8.1 released by chowells on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @10:49PM (#7563895)
Native threads for FFI calls are pooled. It's not cheap, but it's not too expensive either.