Re: Multitasking and containers

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> But "parallel systems require delicate handmade work" is probably
> not good advice at all, because (a) parallel systems operate in parallel
> and there isn't a sharing issue in the first place, no protection is
> needed. (b) When systems start communicating, and if it were true
> that concurrency requires delicate handmade work, why then use a
> language like Ada? The delicacies of the mechanisms behind tasks
> and shared protected objects are hidden in Ada RTSs. Therefore, if
> parallel systems do require delicate handmade work, the language
> designers should abandon Ada tasks and protected objects, because
> obviously they cannot meet the requirements of parallel systems.

I guess we have different interpretations of "delicate handmade work". I 
took it simply to mean custom implementations tailored to the specific 
project (such as a container that does not need protection for reads). I 
guess only Kazakov can tell us for sure.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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