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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,def01441310021b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-28 21:34:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!195.158.233.21!news1.ebone.net!news.ebone.net!news.ipartners.pl!news.internetia.pl!news.tpi.pl!not-for-mail From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ? Date: 29 Jul 2001 04:34:37 GMT Organization: tp.internet - http://www.tpi.pl Message-ID: <9k03ot$2me$3@news.tpi.pl> References: <3B557455.B3ADFEE@ffi.no> <3B57DF48.E1C23D42@ffi.no> <3B57EFCB.C5EC2F12@nbi.dk> Reply-To: taw@users.sourceforge.net NNTP-Posting-Host: pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl X-Trace: news.tpi.pl 996381277 2766 213.25.230.220 (29 Jul 2001 04:34:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Jul 2001 04:34:37 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10678 Date: 2001-07-29T04:34:37+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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).