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https://github.com/basvandijk/threads

Fork threads and wait for their result
https://github.com/basvandijk/threads

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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 [forkOnIO] and [forkIOUnmasked].

[threadmanager]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/threadmanager
[async]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async
[spawn]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/spawn
[forkOnIO]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/GHC-Conc-Sync.html#v:forkOnIO
[forkIOUnmasked]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/GHC-Conc-Sync.html#v:forkOnIOUnmasked