Re: Multitasking and containers

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:41:00 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> 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.

Actually, you did it better than me. Thanks.

I also agree with your point about premature optimization. It is a common
disease, which costs much work and many bad designs, which in the end turn
neither efficient nor clean. I suffer it as well, this in a human nature of
many programmers.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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