Re: is there a 'wait' command in Ada

[kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <m2bucby5qx.fsf@metronet.com> Corey Minyard <minyard@metronet.com> writes:
[...]
> IMHO, the GNAT compiler should only require threads if using tasks.
> Since delay is not implicitly an operation requiring threads, it
> shouldn't require them.

But delay statements do affect task scheduling, and there's no way
to determine, when a delay statement is compiled, whether it will be
executed by a program with multiple tasks.

Making delay statements behave differently depending on whether the
program has multiple tasks is an interesting and doable optimization,
but it's not necessarily a trivial one.

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