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From: jonathan <johnscpg@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Need some light on using Ada or not
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On Feb 20, 7:57=A0pm, 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% o=
verhead
> (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.