Re: ANNOUNCE: Magpie 0.10 Utilities for multi-core execution

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Jan 28, 5:49 pm, Brad Moore <brad.mo...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> On 26/01/2011 6:12 PM, Marc A. Criley wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hot on the heels of Brad Moore's Paraffin, and inspired by his article
> > in Ada Letters (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1879078,
> > membership required), comes the initial release of Magpie:
>
> > Magpie is a collection of generic procedures that distributes subranges
> > of iterative application-defined processing across the processors of a
> > multi-core CPU to achieve true concurrency and therefore increased
> > application performance.
>
> > Magpie supports work sharing and work seeking processing for the GNAT
> > compiler on Linux platforms. The platform restriction is due to
> > processor-affinity not being a standard Ada feature until Ada 2012, so
> > in the interim a GNAT-specific pragma is utilized (more info in the
> > README).
>
> > Magpie is available for download at:
>
> >http://sourceforge.net/projects/magpie-mc
>
> > Break into groups, execute, and rejoin with your consensus.
>
> > Marc A. Criley
> > McKae Technologies
>
> And thanks to Marc as he was the one who encouraged me to release the
> paraffin code.
>
> Brad

Brad, Marc,
  What is the difference between Magpie and Paraffin?