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.
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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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