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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Benchmarks Game: Thread ring (Was: Large number of tasks slows down
 my program (using debian) - any fix?)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:58:58 +0200
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Brad Moore <bmoore.ada@gmail.com> writes:

> [...]  I believe the reason why it works as fast as it did, is that an
> Ada protected object can have one task perform the action of the
> protected object on behalf of other tasks that are queued on an entry
> of the protected object.

> The results comparing this version against other approaches in other
> languages can be seen here, where the entries are executed on a
> quad-core machine:

> https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/threadring.html

>From the CPU load data, it looks like the Ada solution has four tasks
running full time, and not just a single one.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin!"