Stolen from the async package. The perf improvement is modest, 2% on a thread heavy benchmark (parallel composition using noop computations). A version of forkIO that does not include the outer exception handler: saves a bit of time when we will be installing our own exception handler.
Modulestreamly-core-0.3.1Haskell2010
Streamly.Internal.Control.ForkIO
- 3 values
- Packagestreamly-core-0.3.1
- Exports3
- LanguageHaskell2010
- LicenceBSD-3-Clause
- SourceForkIO.hs
Fork a thread that is automatically killed as soon as the reference to the returned threadId is garbage collected.
Fork a thread that is automatically killed as soon as the reference to the returned threadId is garbage collected.