From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0e1d3b3f7c994b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 14:11:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <89af8399-94fb-42b3-909d-edf3c98d32e5@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <13t4b2kkjem20f3@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.0.241.175 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205014264 4314 127.0.0.1 (8 Mar 2008 22:11:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:11:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.0.241.175; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20241 Date: 2008-03-08T14:11:04-08:00 List-Id: On 8 Mar, 07:04, "ME" wrote: > As many of may have already noticed, there has been a tremendous furor over > the lack of multicore support in the common languages like C and C++. No, I did not notice it. It is possble that I've been just too busy writing multithreaded software in C and C++ and that's why I've missed this furor. > Robert Dewar ,our hero, has written an absolutely excellent > article with a clever intro.http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206900265 No, he didn't write anything special. Actually, there is a lot more to this subject that he didn't mention. Take for example lock-free algorithms. There is no visible research on this related to Ada, unlike Java and C++ (check on comp.programming.threads). Ada will most likely miss the "multicore revolution", unless it will *really* focus on performance - the point is that all this multicore hoopla revolves around performance, *exclusively*. -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com