Parallel Text Corpus Processing with Ada?

[tmoran@acm.org]

> E.g., one could imagine a parallel grep.
  A year or something ago I tried a parallel word counter and as I recall
it ran pleasing faster on a dual-core than a single-core CPU.  It had a
subroutine that accepted a buffer load of text updated a count parameter.
So parallelizing just consisted in making more than one counter task,
then having the read task give each a buffer load in turn, and after all
was done, harvesting the several counts.  Of course there was also a
bit of special handling for words that were split across buffer loads,
but for a decent size buffer that took an inconsequential amount of time.
  So yes, there are lots of opportunities to utility multiple cpus using
very simple Ada tasking.