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Subject: Re: Maximum Number Of Tasks?
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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=20
> find any info. The question is, is a task in Ada technically similar to=
=20
> a thread in Windows under the hood? Threads are restricted by the stack=
=20
> size that each thread has reserved, so in practice the maximum number of=
=20
> threads is about 2000.
>=20

I remember that I saw at FOSDEM 2013 in the "Ada Developer Room" a demo tha=
t 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 chan=
ged 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 Li=
nux + GNAT, if I remember correctly.

Riccardo