Re: Ada, Concurrency and Cryptography.

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

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adacrypt expounded in news:ab879ba9-12fb-4329-977e-248b7e856131
@u26g2000yqu.googlegroups.com:

> I don�t profess to be very knowledgeable on the finer points of Ada�s
> advantages so I will ask my question of more informed people and
> hopefully get some guidance from some person.
> 
> In the cryptography that I have invented my encryption program and
> corresponding decryption program both work in much the same way so its
> only necessary to describe one in order to ask my question.
> 
> The encryption program (this will do) reads in a character from an
> external batch file and encrypts it in between reading the next
> character in the next pass of the same loop.  ...

> Question: If the encryption work was done in a separate CPU in another
> location immediately after the character is read in would this speed
> up the process very much.  

Google or read about Ada "tasks" (or "tasking"). There you will
find out about the Ada support for concurrency ("threads").

Warren