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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Looking for implementation idea
Date: 1999/02/08
Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79n2dt$5n9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F6suus.n1x.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com

In article <F6suus.n1x.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
  stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) wrote:
> Corey Minyard (minyard@acm.org) wrote:
>
> : ...
> : One question for the Ada experts: Ada protected types don't work in
> : SMP since they are task priority based, do they?
>
> Ada protected types *do* work on a multi-processor.
>

> I'm curious -- where did you get the impression that protected
> types did not work on a multiprocessor?  I'm wondering how common
> is this misconception...

They look to me like they were *designed* to be usable for synchronization in
a parallel shared-memory architecture. Was that actually the case?

T.E.D.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-02-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-07  0:00 Looking for implementation idea Thomas Handler
1999-02-07  0:00 ` Paul Duquennoy
1999-02-08  0:00   ` Thomas Handler
1999-02-07  0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-07  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-08  0:00     ` dewar
1999-02-08  0:00       ` dennison
1999-02-08  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-07  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-07  0:00     ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-08  0:00       ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-07  0:00         ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-08  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-08  0:00     ` dennison [this message]
1999-02-08  0:00       ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-09  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-11  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-08  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-07  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-02-07  0:00     ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-08  0:00   ` Thomas Handler
1999-02-07  0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1999-02-08  0:00   ` Thomas Handler
1999-02-09  0:00     ` Niklas Holsti
1999-02-10  0:00       ` Thomas Handler
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