Is it just me, or does it seem like using fork to implement thread is kind of overkill. The point of fork is that you want the context of the calling process (a

Is it just me, or does it seem like using fork to implement thread is kind of overkill. The point of fork is that you want the context of the calling process (and the required overhead) and implementing threads on top of fork seems to defeat the purpose. Note: I have not programmed in Haskell and am unfamiliar with it's fork function.