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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: 
 border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:52:45 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9;
 rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages
References: <1ljwj8f.1wqbhvuabsdw1N%csampson@inetworld.net>
 <lic17o$re4$1@dont-email.me> <8761m535e4.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org>
 <lj3540$m81$1@dont-email.me> <lj3nao$u22$2@dont-email.me>
 <lj4de1$jql$1@dont-email.me> <ly7g6hamsw.fsf@pushface.org>
 <lj5n4g$jse$1@dont-email.me> <brntbeFnfgcU1@mid.individual.net>
 <lj6kfg$jhs$1@dont-email.me> <lj6uhp$7dd$1@loke.gir.dk>
 <lj8aug$43b$1@dont-email.me> <ly61lzrciv.fsf@pushface.org>
 <lj9lbm$cig$1@dont-email.me> <brsggrFmd3gU1@mid.individual.net>
 <ljbmfm$j7u$1@dont-email.me> <brt9ftFrnkaU1@mid.individual.net>
 <ljce8q$qpb$1@loke.gir.dk> <ljekbl$bbt$1@dont-email.me>
 <ljeljn$sb3$1@loke.gir.dk> <bs121aFksntU1@mid.individual.net>
 <1zhiqb89npa6$.1z9j4otjchcb.dlg@40tude.net>
In-Reply-To: <1zhiqb89npa6$.1z9j4otjchcb.dlg@40tude.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <535b65cd$0$6716$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net>
Organization: Arcor
NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Apr 2014 09:52:45 CEST
NNTP-Posting-Host: 62315473.newsspool2.arcor-online.net
X-Trace: DXC=2]h^dc@1U[FFJ3]dH>I?oEA9EHlD;
 3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA8kF<OcfhCOKHgaNXL43oaCPCY\c7>ejVHMTBeOK:9T7@4_V8A<; VW\@
X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de
X-Original-Bytes: 2166
Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186102
Date: 2014-04-26T09:52:45+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 26/04/14 09:36, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Many lock-free operations require more than merely pragma Atomic, e.g.
> compare and swap etc.

Would it help if a Suspension_Object were implemented
on top of CAS?

I understand that everything concurrent can be expressed
with the help of consensus protocols, which in turn can
be expressed in terms of CAS  only.