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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development
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"Wojtek Narczynski" <wojtek@power.com.pl> wrote in message
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> I reason that you have not looked at the material under the links I
> sent. While Ada tasks and protected objects provide convenient
> semantics, their GNAT implementation with task = os level thread does
> not yield desired performance under certain applications. In this
> situation for C there are libraries of cooperative threads with
> resource aware scheduling, for Ada there isn't anything comparable.

This is how tasking works in the Janus/Ada compiler. So, clearly there is
something comparable available. But I wouldn't go so far as to call it high
performance (it was designed to make tasking available on as many targets as
possible).

                            Randy.