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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: understanding runtime support
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:34:42 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-05-14T11:34:42-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8547012.586.1337020482714.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynlq12> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32791890.97.1336995087800.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yneo6>

On Monday, May 14, 2012 6:31:27 AM UTC-5, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Shark8, Hi Ludovic
> 
> Thank you both for your answers. I understand the situation now. I am going to stick to some sort of OS.
> 
> Have a great day-Pat

That _might_ be the worst option available.
For one thing, it ties you to that specific OS; another is that the the Ada runtime _can_ take care of a lot of things in a higher-level manner (e.g. tasking) than relying on the OS & libraries (like how C++ uses Boost to do parallelism)... as you can see that option might require compiling the runtime itself for that target (with attendant fiddling to suit the architecture).

A third, and more hybrid approach would be to define the operations/functionality you need in a package and put all your low-level stuff into the body thereof. This however presents [or tends to] more of the weaknesses of both methods than the strengths of either.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11  3:49 understanding runtime support Patrick
2012-05-13  4:49 ` Shark8
2012-05-13 15:26   ` Patrick
2012-05-14  4:37     ` Shark8
2012-05-14  8:24     ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-14 11:31       ` Patrick
2012-05-14 18:34         ` Shark8 [this message]
2012-05-14 20:04           ` Patrick
2012-05-14 21:02             ` mjsilva
2012-05-15  6:48               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-15 15:22                 ` mjsilva
2012-05-15 15:41                   ` Lucretia
2012-05-15 16:05                   ` Lucretia
2012-05-15 16:29                     ` mjsilva
2012-05-15 17:02                       ` Lucretia
2012-05-16 17:51                 ` Tero Koskinen
2012-05-17  6:39                   ` Simon Wright
2012-05-17 18:09                     ` Tero Koskinen
2012-05-17 18:15                     ` John B. Matthews
2012-05-15  7:47               ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-05-15 16:27                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-05-15 16:38                 ` Brian Drummond
2012-05-15 16:49                   ` Patrick
2012-05-15 16:50                   ` Patrick
2012-05-15 14:24               ` Lucretia
2012-05-14 22:52             ` Shark8
2012-05-15  0:04               ` Patrick
2012-05-15  7:39               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-15 14:19       ` Lucretia
2012-05-15  7:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-15 14:31   ` Lucretia
2012-05-16 16:24   ` tmoran
2012-05-17  0:15     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-15 14:48 ` Lucretia
2012-05-15 14:55 ` Lucretia
2012-05-15 15:32   ` Mike Silva
2012-05-15 16:04     ` Lucretia
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