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Thank Jacob for your response.

> > So my question is : does GNAT=A0create a kernel thread for each local
> > task or is it able to compile local tasks as jobs sent to a pool of
> > tasks created in the runtime ?
>=20
> It can do both.  There exists multiple run-time libraries for GNAT, some
> have no tasking at all, some implement tasking directly on the hardware,
> some use user-space threads and some use operating system threads.

Where can I find information on which implementation does what ?
For instance, on Mac OSX, does GNAT uses only kernel threads ? Are user-spa=
ce
threads somehow related to the Florist package (Through Posix Pthreads) ?


> Ada 202X is likely to include slightly more implicit parallel processing
> than tasks.  The Gang of Four is busy(?) working out a proposal for how
> to do it.

I am looking forward to hearing from it.
Kind regards,

Vincent