Re: Ada tasking question

[Leif Holmgren <nobody@nowhere.com>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Stefan Bellon" <sbellon@sbellon.de> wrote in message
>>
>>Starting N tasks, then waiting for them to get all finished and only
>>then starting the next N tasks is not difficult.
...

> and an array of worker
> tasks, and then you can easy vary N to any value you want to try.

If my memory does not fail me the advice to use an array here is double 
good.

First of all you don't need to bother with the nitty gritty details of 
dynamic allocation yourself.

Secondly and perhaps most important Ada will handle the synchronization 
of task termination for you automatically. It will not allow the array 
to go out of scope before all the tasks are completed.

Years ago I implemented such a system (using dynamically allocated 
tasks) and it worked very well. By doing as suggested you will gain 
maximum performance even if the buckets take different time to process.

/Leif