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From: "SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: gnat: time-slicing
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:54:22 GMT
Date: 2002-07-18T12:54:22+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2UyZ8.576656$cQ3.54344@sccrnsc01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: B95B79D3.4951%R_Tim_Coslet@pacbell.net

"R. Tim Coslet" <R_Tim_Coslet@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:B95B79D3.4951%R_Tim_Coslet@pacbell.net...
> Tasking is always potentially "dangerous"!!!
>
> That is why Ada provides the features it does to coordinate Tasks (e.g.,
> Protected Objects, requeue, abort, entry calls) and keep them from
stepping
> on each other's data structures.

I fully agree with this.

> But no Tasking system (Ada or not) can ever be fully deterministic in what
> runs when!

I disagree with this.  It is possible to have a fully deterministic tasking
system.  This is reasonably easy to demonstrate with synchronous tasking.  I
don't believe such systems are common, but they do exist.

SteveD

> --
>         R. Tim Coslet
>         r_tim_coslet@pacbell.net
>
> Technology, n. Domesticated natural phenomena.






  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-18 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-15 11:25 gnat: time-slicing Jan Prazak
2002-07-15  8:44 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-07-15 19:10   ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-15 17:16     ` David C. Hoos
2002-07-15 23:30       ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-16  0:54         ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-16 10:46         ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-07-16 11:57           ` Aaro Koskinen
2002-07-16 12:57           ` SteveD
2002-07-16 15:18           ` Florian Weimer
2002-07-16 13:29     ` Marin David Condic
2002-07-17 19:29       ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-15 13:07 ` time-slicing David C. Hoos
2002-07-15 14:56   ` time-slicing Ian Broster
2002-07-15 19:10   ` time-slicing Jan Prazak
2002-07-15 19:10   ` time-slicing Jan Prazak
2002-07-15 19:05     ` time-slicing Anders Gidenstam
2002-07-15 23:30       ` time-slicing Jan Prazak
2002-07-15 20:33         ` time-slicing Darren New
2002-07-16 16:30         ` time-slicing Pascal Obry
2002-07-16 23:05           ` time-slicing Jan Prazak
2002-07-16 21:33     ` time-slicing Robert Dewar
2002-07-15 21:03 ` gnat: time-slicing tmoran
2002-07-16 13:04   ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-16 21:29 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-17 19:29   ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-17 16:44     ` Pascal Obry
2002-07-17 21:38       ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-17 19:21         ` Randy Brukardt
2002-07-17 22:44           ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-17 19:57             ` Marin David Condic
2002-07-18 18:38               ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-07-20 11:52                 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-17 19:43         ` Pascal Obry
2002-07-18 18:55           ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-18 17:01             ` Pascal Obry
2002-07-18 17:03             ` Pascal Obry
2002-07-18 22:38         ` chris.danx
2002-07-18  2:50     ` R. Tim Coslet
2002-07-18 12:54       ` SteveD [this message]
2002-07-20 11:56       ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-18 12:02     ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-07-19  2:33 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-19 13:32   ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-19 23:46   ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-20  0:36     ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-20  4:25       ` Darren New
2002-07-20 11:47     ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-21 10:58       ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-31 22:28       ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-01 19:28   ` Erroneous execution? (was Re: gnat: time-slicing) Ben Brosgol
2002-08-01 22:03     ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-02  3:59       ` Ben Brosgol
2002-08-13 22:30         ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-02  4:17       ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-19  3:17 ` time-slicing SteveD
2002-07-19 13:32   ` time-slicing Jan Prazak
2002-07-19 12:41     ` time-slicing SteveD
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-18  4:44 gnat: time-slicing Grein, Christoph
2002-07-18 18:55 ` Jan Prazak
2002-07-18 16:35   ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-07-19  1:37   ` Robert A Duff
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