threads-0.5.1.6: Fork threads and wait for their result

threads-0.5.1.6: Fork threads and wait for their result

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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