Will be streamed tonight, 2024-11-20, at 1930 UTC, live on YouTube.
Abstract:
There are two primary ways to import C functions in Haskell: “unsafe” and “safe”. We will first briefly recap what this means: unsafe functions are fast but cannot call back into Haskell, safe functions are much slower but can. As we will see in this episode, however, there are many more differences between unsafe and safe functions, especially in a concurrent setting. In particular, safe functions are not always safer!
Full announcement here: The Haskell Unfolder Episode 36: concurrency and the FFI - Well-Typed: The Haskell Consultants