GHCJS.Concurrent

GHCJS has two types of threads. Regular, asynchronous threads are started with `h$run`, are managed by the scheduler and run in the background. `h$run` returns immediately.

Synchronous threads are started with `h$runSync`, which returns when the thread has run to completion. When a synchronous thread does an operation that would block, like accessing an MVar or an asynchronous FFI call, it cannot continue synchronously.

There are two ways this can be resolved, depending on the second argument of the `h$runSync` call:

• The action is aborted and the thread receives a WouldBlockException
• The thread continues asynchronously, `h$runSync` returns

Note: when a synchronous thread encounters a black hole from another thread, it tries to steal the work from that thread to avoid blocking. In some cases that might not be possible, for example when the data accessed is produced by a lazy IO operation. This is resolved the same way as blocking on an IO action would be.

Documentation

isThreadSynchronous :: ThreadId -> IO Bool

Returns whether the ThreadId is a synchronous thread

isThreadContinueAsync :: ThreadId -> IO Bool

Returns whether the ThreadId will continue running async. Always returns True when the thread is not synchronous.

data OnBlocked

The runtime tries to run synchronous threads to completion. Sometimes it's not possible to continue running a thread, for example when the thread tries to take an empty MVar. The runtime can then either throw a WouldBlockException, aborting the blocking action, or continue the thread asynchronously.

Constructors

ContinueAsync

continue the thread asynchronously if blocked

ThrowWouldBlock

throw WouldBlockException if blocked

Instances

Enum OnBlocked

Defined in GHCJS.Concurrent

Methods

succ :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked

pred :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked

toEnum :: Int -> OnBlocked

fromEnum :: OnBlocked -> Int

enumFrom :: OnBlocked -> [OnBlocked]

enumFromThen :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> [OnBlocked]

enumFromTo :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> [OnBlocked]

enumFromThenTo :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> [OnBlocked]

Eq OnBlocked

Defined in GHCJS.Concurrent

Methods

(==) :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> Bool

(/=) :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> Bool

Data OnBlocked

Defined in GHCJS.Concurrent

Methods

gfoldl :: (forall d b. Data d => c (d -> b) -> d -> c b) -> (forall g. g -> c g) -> OnBlocked -> c OnBlocked

gunfold :: (forall b r. Data b => c (b -> r) -> c r) -> (forall r. r -> c r) -> Constr -> c OnBlocked

toConstr :: OnBlocked -> Constr

dataTypeOf :: OnBlocked -> DataType

dataCast1 :: Typeable t => (forall d. Data d => c (t d)) -> Maybe (c OnBlocked)

dataCast2 :: Typeable t => (forall d e. (Data d, Data e) => c (t d e)) -> Maybe (c OnBlocked)

gmapT :: (forall b. Data b => b -> b) -> OnBlocked -> OnBlocked

gmapQl :: (r -> r' -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> OnBlocked -> r

gmapQr :: (r' -> r -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> OnBlocked -> r

gmapQ :: (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> OnBlocked -> [u]

gmapQi :: Int -> (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> OnBlocked -> u

gmapM :: Monad m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> OnBlocked -> m OnBlocked

gmapMp :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> OnBlocked -> m OnBlocked

gmapMo :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> OnBlocked -> m OnBlocked

Ord OnBlocked

Defined in GHCJS.Concurrent

Methods

compare :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> Ordering

(<) :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> Bool

(<=) :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> Bool

(>) :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> Bool

(>=) :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> Bool

max :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> OnBlocked

min :: OnBlocked -> OnBlocked -> OnBlocked

Show OnBlocked

Defined in GHCJS.Concurrent

Methods

showsPrec :: Int -> OnBlocked -> ShowS

show :: OnBlocked -> String

showList :: [OnBlocked] -> ShowS

data WouldBlockException

If a synchronous thread tries to do something that can only be done asynchronously, and the thread is set up to not continue asynchronously, it receives this exception.

Constructors

WouldBlockException

Instances

Show WouldBlockException

Defined in GHCJS.Prim

Methods

showsPrec :: Int -> WouldBlockException -> ShowS

show :: WouldBlockException -> String

showList :: [WouldBlockException] -> ShowS

Exception WouldBlockException

Defined in GHCJS.Prim

Methods

toException :: WouldBlockException -> SomeException

fromException :: SomeException -> Maybe WouldBlockException

displayException :: WouldBlockException -> String

withoutPreemption :: IO a -> IO a

Run the action without the scheduler preempting the thread. When a blocking action is encountered, the thread is still suspended and will continue without preemption when it's woken up again.

When the thread encounters a black hole from another thread, the scheduler will attempt to clear it by temporarily switching to that thread.

synchronously :: IO a -> IO a

Run the action synchronously, which means that the thread will not be preempted by the scheduler. If the thread encounters a blocking operation, the runtime throws a WouldBlock exception.

When the thread encounters a black hole from another thread, the scheduler will attempt to clear it by temporarily switching to that thread.