From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:19:00 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-09-12T00:19:00-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55587e8d-93c1-4753-ae8c-250b31e9eb64@dq7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j4hqvt$6pa$1@dont-email.me
J-P. Rosen wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Simon Wright a écrit :
>> It used to be that you could configure GNAT to use a tasking RTS that
>> didn't use threads; tasks were scheduled entirely within the RTS. I
>> think these may be called 'green threads'[1]. Of course, this meant that
>> blocking on I/O would block the whole program, but for some purposes it
>> might be ideal.
>
> No, it used the FSU threads
The FSU threads library was a kind of green threads. The GNAT User's
Guide of GCC 3.4 used to say: "The FSU threads package operates with
all Ada tasks
appearing to the system to be a single thread."
--
Ludovic Brenta.
The human resources streamline the executive talents, while the
Quality Research results in a SWOT analysis from the get-go.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-12 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-10 15:19 Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS? Simon Wright
2011-09-11 8:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-09-11 9:22 ` John B. Matthews
2011-09-11 9:49 ` anon
2011-09-11 10:29 ` Pascal Obry
2011-09-12 0:33 ` anon
2011-09-12 7:27 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-12 9:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-12 9:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13 1:22 ` anon
2011-09-12 13:01 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-11 10:36 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-12 7:19 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2011-09-12 23:22 ` Rugxulo
2011-09-13 7:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13 7:55 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13 8:30 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-13 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-13 12:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 14:02 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-13 16:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 16:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-13 20:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 21:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-14 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 10:57 ` Peter C. Chapin
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox