From: "AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:47:07 +1200
Date: 2001-07-29T17:47:07+12:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DqN87.542$Ix3.150058@news.xtra.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9k03ot$2me$3@news.tpi.pl
"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl> wrote in message
news:9k03ot$2me$3@news.tpi.pl...
> 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).
Please note that you said "change threading model". That obviously means at
least
*some* change (I hope you didn't mean that C compiler can do that for you?)
Ada model does *not* require that. And, if you want to use hardware/OS
threading model why not bite the bullet and go Assembler way?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-29 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-18 11:34 Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ? Reinert Korsnes
2001-07-18 11:42 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-07-19 17:29 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-20 8:15 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-08-03 17:38 ` Dale Pontius
2001-08-03 21:32 ` Florian Weimer
2001-07-18 13:33 ` Preben Randhol
2001-07-19 17:31 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-19 17:46 ` Ed Falis
2001-07-20 7:35 ` Reinert Korsnes
2001-07-20 8:46 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-07-26 0:52 ` Corey Ashford
2001-07-29 4:34 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-29 5:47 ` AG [this message]
2001-07-29 5:56 ` tmoran
2001-07-29 8:20 ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-29 12:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-29 14:08 ` Florian Weimer
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