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:
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Simpler API.
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More efficient in both space and time.
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No space-leak when forking a large number of threads.
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Correct handling of asynchronous exceptions.
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GHC specific functionality like forkOnIO and forkIOUnmasked.