Re: Maximum Number Of Tasks?

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:53:53 AM UTC+1, FritzVonBraun wrote:
> I was wondering about the maximum number of tasks in Ada but I couldnt 
> find any info. The question is, is a task in Ada technically similar to 
> a thread in Windows under the hood? Threads are restricted by the stack 
> size that each thread has reserved, so in practice the maximum number of 
> threads is about 2000.
> 

I remember that I saw at FOSDEM 2013 in the "Ada Developer Room" a demo that plotted a Mandelbrot set by using a matrix of tasks.  A participant asked then "can you do that with 10_000 tasks?"  The size of the matrix was changed to 100 x 100 and everything worked smoothly; so, in that case you could create at least 10_000 tasks.  The PC was a laptop running some kind of Linux + GNAT, if I remember correctly.

Riccardo