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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d3835fff328f017a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: G Subject: tasks, cpu stuff, more Date: 1999/09/10 Message-ID: <37D8E153.39970D0D@interact.net.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 523333528 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Humanity X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: -- if this shows up twice, sorry... something funny happening on my end with email 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