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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.159.57.223 with SMTP id p31mr8809uag.48.1501724012760; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:33:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.80.193 with SMTP id m184mr5277itb.6.1501724012607; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!s6no198509qtc.1!news-out.google.com!196ni370itl.0!nntp.google.com!u14no90689ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:33:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <290e79ee-6626-468b-932b-94dfe724ec45@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=199.46.251.141; posting-account=84ieUgoAAAAnUS2e_T521zfeUcALYrrJ NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.46.251.141 References: <9e51f87c-3b54-4d09-b9ca-e3c6a6e8940a@googlegroups.com> <290e79ee-6626-468b-932b-94dfe724ec45@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8f6961ed-7c6d-47c5-b141-bc5ede68ec78@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Real tasking problems with Ada. From: Wesley Pan Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 01:33:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47561 Date: 2017-08-02T18:33:32-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 7:39:02 AM UTC-7, Lucretia wrote: =20 > You and I see Ada going in the same direction, Ada needs to and should be= targetting massively multi-core/threaded systems. With 202x, I want to see= this push such that parallel blocks can be compiled down to SPIR-V, for ex= ample. Or being able to compile a subprogam as a compute kernel, all within= one language. >=20 > i.e. >=20 > parallel > ... > and > ... > end with > Compute; -- Offload to compute if available. Example where massive multi-core/multi-threaded systems will be the way of = the future: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?_mc=3DRSS%5FEET%5FEDT&doc_i= d=3D1331891&page_number=3D1 Sadly, languages like C and C++ will probably be used for such platforms si= nce Ada is frowned upon by many. A safety critical use case that probably w= on't use a safety critical focused language like Ada... =3D(