From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63360011f8addace X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-18 05:54:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "SteveD" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <5ee5b646.0207161329.5c8e387b@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: gnat: time-slicing X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <2UyZ8.576656$cQ3.54344@sccrnsc01> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.225.227.101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1026996862 12.225.227.101 (Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:54:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:54:22 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:54:22 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27219 Date: 2002-07-18T12:54:22+00:00 List-Id: "R. Tim Coslet" 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.