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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,530ad614c9f4ee8d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pascal.obry@der.edfgdf.fr (Pascal Obry) Subject: Re: Ada95 parallel and distributed processing Date: 1996/06/26 Message-ID: <4qqqv6$nb4@cf01>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162233289 references: <4qp7ri$puc@ns.oar.net> organization: EDF - DER newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi) wrote: >This is not much different in this than say using C or C++ or >any other language on top of a thread library usually part of the OS >to write threads-based code, except in Ada, tasks are 'build' into >the language, and this is much better way than having to call outside >libraries to create and interfaces between threads. Tasking in Ada >has been in it since Ada83, it is nothing new, but Ada95 added >improvemnts to the model like shared variables among others. No shared variables were in Ada83. In this field the more important change in Ada95 are the protected records that are an inexpansive (not CPU consuming) way of synchronizing tasks that shares datas. The other important change is the Distributed Annex that you point out. Pascal. --|------------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member | --| | --| EDF-DER-IPN-SID- Ing�nierie des Syst�mes d'Informations | --| | --| Bureau G1-010 e-mail: pascal.obry@der.edfgdf.fr | --| 1 Av G�n�ral de Gaulle voice : +33-1-47.65.50.91 | --| 92141 Clamart CEDEX fax : +33-1-47.65.50.07 | --| FRANCE | --|------------------------------------------------------------ --| --| http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pascal_obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"