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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,511d9a7626ec9335 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe01.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail From: Brad Moore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Magpie 0.10 Utilities for multi-core execution References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.145.218.234 X-Complaints-To: internet.abuse@sjrb.ca X-Trace: newsfe01.iad 1296262177 68.145.218.234 (Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:49:37 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:49:37 UTC Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:49:34 -0700 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16783 Date: 2011-01-28T17:49:34-07:00 List-Id: On 26/01/2011 6:12 PM, Marc A. Criley wrote: > Hot on the heels of Brad Moore's Paraffin, and inspired by his article > in Ada Letters (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1879078, > membership required), comes the initial release of Magpie: > > Magpie is a collection of generic procedures that distributes subranges > of iterative application-defined processing across the processors of a > multi-core CPU to achieve true concurrency and therefore increased > application performance. > > Magpie supports work sharing and work seeking processing for the GNAT > compiler on Linux platforms. The platform restriction is due to > processor-affinity not being a standard Ada feature until Ada 2012, so > in the interim a GNAT-specific pragma is utilized (more info in the > README). > > Magpie is available for download at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/magpie-mc > > Break into groups, execute, and rejoin with your consensus. > > Marc A. Criley > McKae Technologies > And thanks to Marc as he was the one who encouraged me to release the paraffin code. Brad