Re: Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ?

[taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)]

In article <E166E69A95753648BC398E36BE9A3AB81451890D@sus-ma1it06.rational.com>, Corey Ashford wrote:
> One major advantage of Ada is built-in threading (i.e. Ada tasks).
> As hardware gets more multiprocessing capability, Ada programs written using
> tasking will naturally get a performance boost.   Of course, multi-threaded
> C programs would get a boost too, but because it's so much easier
> for a programmer to write multi-threaded programs in Ada, they will be more
> likely to do use multi-threading in Ada than in C.

Not true, because C uses hardware/OS threading model, while Ada uses own
threading model, so unless hardware and OSes will be designed for Ada,
C code will perform better (C code can change threading model if
hardware/OS design changes with no problem).