Re: Too many tasks? overhead questions.

[system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu]

system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu writes:
>eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
>>"Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> writes:

>I want to thank Robert and Nick for the suggestions, they are definately
>going into the mill as I work on how I want to do this, but they don't
>answer the primary question, which is how much and what kind of overhead 
>can I expect a few hundred tasks to involve?

urp, Nick wrote in his original reply:
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To see if the number of tasks you require will run on a particular machine,
write a test program which spawns lots of tasks. It needn't be very
complicated.
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which I missed completely, my apologies.

I have a few excuses for not having done that, I don't have
a functional ada compiler and it will be a while before I do and I am
competant enough to write such a program.  And while I am learning
to code in Ada I am also developing some ideas on the mud that
may be impacted by whether I run it multithreaded or not.

My other original excuse was that I didn't want to invest a bunch of
time learning tasking if I wasn't going to use it, but my interest
has been piqued so... (besides, if I get serious about Ada I'll
want to learn it anyhow.)

I guess I will just have to install GNAT and get to work :)  Thanks
again for the help.

Robert
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