4.13. Using Concurrent Haskell
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## 4.13. Using Concurrent Haskell

GHC supports Concurrent Haskell by default, without requiring a special option or libraries compiled in a certain way. To get access to the support libraries for Concurrent Haskell, just import `Control.Concurrent`. More information on Concurrent Haskell is provided in the documentation for that module.

The following RTS option(s) affect the behaviour of Concurrent Haskell programs:

`-C`s``

  Sets the context switch interval to `s` seconds. A context switch will occur at the next heap block allocation after the timer expires (a heap block allocation occurs every 4k of allocation). With `-C0` or `-C`, context switches will occur as often as possible (at every heap block allocation). By default, context switches occur every 20ms.

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