tasks, cpu stuff, more

tasks, cpu stuff, more

[G]

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Hi all... I am back on topic now... so please forgive my brief
outbursts of vociferous humanity...

1) If a program runs several tasks and the hardware has several CPU's.
Does the whole
process of coding the tasks require that a specific CPU is allocated to
each one ?  I can understand how different threads of activity can be
happening in different places, it just appears something less than
transparent whether or not tasks must be assigned to system-specific
CPU's.  This is a theoretical issue, I suppose.  I wonder because it
might
appear (to the novice/ interested individual) that different tasks
performing different
processes would require different coding for the relevant hardware
functions and thus the task would have to be identified (in some way or
another) with the relevant processor.  (?).  Is this so ?  If not, how
would it be possible to ensure that a task
was carried out in the right place ?   Does the code have to be written
with hardware targets for the tasks ?  (I am trying to explain what you
already understand, I better refrain from asking the same question in
any more variations... you know what I mean... common language semantics

being so very much more fluid than computer code.)

2) What, exactly does it mean to  "implement a parallel state iterator
in ada with dependency checking" ?

-Graeme