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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a5681531ca1cf09e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Tasking performance between Ada83 and Ada95 Date: 1997/06/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 247499880 Distribution: world References: <1997Jun6.115223.7384@relay.nswc.navy.mil> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article 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 -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com