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From: jonathan <johnscpg@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Need some light on using Ada or not
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:10:13 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-02-20T12:10:13-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73f1d7b1-98eb-436a-8f74-726ddf9c9407@e8g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mcs2m6hv8hbkboqoeli3pbg29oj09slesu@4ax.com

On Feb 20, 7:57 pm, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:49:10 +0100, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:
> >Jonathan,
>
> >> If you want a multi-core Ada version, this might be a good
> >> place to break out the Annex E (distributed systems) approach.
>
> >I really don't see how a distributed application could run faster than a
> >multi-threaded one on a single machine! So PolyORB is certainly not the
> >solution to this problem.
>
> You are probably right ... unless PolyOrb performs better than the 100% overhead
> (on this test case) imposed by the pthread library (which I think is how Gnat
> implements its tasking)
>
> - Brian.

My preferred plan B would link to MPI, which distributes mpi-tasks
over the available cores.  I don't know if that will work either!

J.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18 22:52 Need some light on using Ada or not Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-18 23:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-19 14:25   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-19  0:20 ` Edward Fish
2011-02-20  0:13   ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-20  1:36     ` Marc A. Criley
2011-02-20  9:59     ` mockturtle
2011-02-20 10:37     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 11:08     ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01  8:10     ` Adrian Hoe
2011-03-01  8:29       ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-04 13:34         ` Adrian Hoe
2011-02-19  8:43 ` Vadim Godunko
2011-02-19 13:07 ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 14:17   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-19 18:02     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 18:07       ` Bill Findlay
2011-02-20 10:42         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 14:36   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-19 18:25     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 14:34       ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 15:45         ` jonathan
2011-02-20 16:18           ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 19:49           ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 19:57             ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 20:10               ` jonathan [this message]
2011-02-20 21:15                 ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 21:26                   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 21:33                     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 21:36                     ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 21:50                       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 22:18                   ` jonathan
2011-02-20 22:47               ` Simon Wright
2011-02-21 12:52                 ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-21 13:44                   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-24  0:19                     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-24  7:41                       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2011-02-22  2:15                   ` Shark8
2011-02-20 16:42       ` jonathan
2011-02-20 20:02         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20  0:20   ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-20 10:50     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 19:54     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-23 22:19       ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-24 17:06         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-27 17:51           ` Luis P. Mendes
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