From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Tasking performance between Ada83 and Ada95
Date: 1997/06/10
Date: 1997-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Jun10131704@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.865813228@merv
In article <dewar.865813228@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> What we are doing with several of the new distributions of GNAT is to provide
> a mechanism for selecting system level threads or our own thread package.
> The system level threads give full system concurrency and allow true
> multi-processing on an MP, but tend to be a lot slower, and also often
> less accurate with respect to Annex D requirements. Our own threads package
> (typically FSU threads), does not give full system concurrency, but is often
> much more efficient, and also more accurate with respect to Annex D
> requirements. This gives the best of both worlds, leaving the choice
> up to the user.
That's really excellent! Thanks,
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-06 0:00 Tasking performance between Ada83 and Ada95 Mike Rose
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Edmond Walsh
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-15 0:00 ` Edmond Walsh
1997-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-06-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-22 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-07 0:00 ` jim hopper
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-06-10 0:00 ` PascMartin
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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