shared heap regions between local mutable state threads.
This library implements the ST2 monad, a type using GDP (ghosts of departed proofs) to define shared regions of memory between local mutable state threads. This allows us to define a region of the heap in more minute contours, with each state thread having explicit access to regions in memory. This is achieved using the function runST2
, which in effects lets the user run a computation that makes use of two partially-overlapping memory regions. Within that computation, the user can run sub-computations bound to one or the other memory region. Furthermore, a sub-computation can move any variable that it owns into the common overlap via share
.
An example is shown in the documentation, where one sub-computation creates two cells: one private, and the other shared. A second sub-computation has unconstrained access to the shared cell. Yet even though the private reference is also in scope during the second sub-computation, any attempts to access it there will fail to compile.