From: Hadrien Grasland <hadrien.grasland@gmail.com>
Subject: User threads in Ada ?
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 14:08:02 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-05-28T14:08:02-07:00 [thread overview]
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Hi everyone,
Recently, cooperatively scheduled user threads have become popular again in the parallel programming community. The main goal behind their use is typically to avoid spawning, blocking and liberating kernel threads all the time, which comes with some significant overhead.
Some C++ libraries such as Intel TBB and HPX now make it much easier and portable than before to deal with such user threads, in no small part thanks to a couple of nice abstractions, such as asynchronous function calls returning futures that provide event-like synchronization.
I'm currently playing around with this concept in Ada, and wondering how far it can be taken. The first thing to do being, of course, to tell what is already there. Is anyone aware of previous work related to implementing user threads in Ada ?
Cheers,
Hadrien
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