Re: GNAT's stack checking in Ubuntu 9.04 (and Shootout regex-dna)

[Georg Bauhaus <see.reply.to@maps.futureapps.de>]

jonathan wrote:
>  In fact all settings of Max_CPUs
> from 9 to 15 ran in  9 seconds. At Max_CPUs = 24
> it was 9.7 sec.

Thanks, Jonathan, for these comments.
Your findings make me think that 9 is "magical"
because there are 9 patterns:  The algorithm is
such that it would try to arrange for 9 rendezvous
if there are 9 or more task objects available.
If this turns out to be true, I can simplify the
algorithm, getting rid of a clumsy loop that
distributes work to Max_CPUs task objects.