Re: Ada lacks lighterweight-than-task parallelism

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 4:14:17 PM UTC-6, Dan'l Miller wrote:
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> Ada for the Cold War in 1983 would focus on tasks as the only vehicle for parallelism.  Ada for the 21st century would also embrace/facilitate slices somehow, via some sort of locality of reference or via some sort of demarcation of independence.

Don't hate on TASK!
TASK is a great construct, and particularly good for:
1) Isolating and/or interfacing both subsystems and jobs, with the possibility of taking advantage of multiprocessor capability;
2) Implementing protocols, via the ACCEPT construct; and
3) at a high-level rather than the "annotated GPU assembly" we get with (eg) CUDA/C.

As for something lightweight, we're working on that in the ARG right now:
* PARALLEL DO blocks,
* Parallel LOOPs [IIRC, it might be just FOR], and
* And some other things like operators, blocking-detection, etc.