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From: Richard Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada 95 tasking problems with Ada 83 code
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:00:14 -0700
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Pat Rogers wrote:

> "Richard Riehle" <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:39B52DFC.6EF265D3@ix.netcom.com...
>
>
> > All that being said, we don't know enough details of Wayne's design
> to
> > make absolute pronouncements about how he should proceed, but I
> think you would agree that anyone
> > designing a task-based system ought to have some awareness of the
> issues related to schedulability.
>
> Certainly for a real-time system.  But for "just" a concurrent
> program, I think a full schedulability analysis is overkill.

OK.  I will agree with that.   We simply had different models immediately
in mind.   The "pool of tasks" design will be different from a real-time
model
where each task performs some unique action, and deadlines and
schedulability
are critical.   Also, we are still not sure  what Wayne is doing, so he
has some
work to do in deciding which approach is more appropriate.   I am sure you

agree, though, that anyone planning a design using concurrent tasks should
have
a little familiarity with the issues related to scheduling, even when
using a pool of
similar tasks, especially if  those tasks are communicating with each
other.

Richard

Richard Riehle
laoxhai@ix.netcom.com