From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8ddc02527645a844 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-30 23:01:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news.cesnet.cz!crax.cesnet.cz!news.felk.cvut.cz!not-for-mail From: Sergey Koshcheyev Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: tasking with GNAT 3.14p on windows Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:56:07 +0200 Organization: Czech Technical University Message-ID: References: <6jIha.35142$ja4.2255611@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: r2c113.mistral.cz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ns.felk.cvut.cz 1049093483 72207 62.245.66.113 (31 Mar 2003 06:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ns.felk.cvut.cz NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:51:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030326 X-Accept-Language: en, ru, cs In-Reply-To: Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35816 Date: 2003-03-31T08:56:07+02:00 List-Id: James S. Rogers wrote: >>>The null command will reliably take less than 3.0 seconds to complete. >> >>It's inside of a neverending loop. > > > And optimization will remove the loop, leaving a single null statement. Such an optimization will also be implemented in hardware in the upcoming Pentium V processors, which are rumored to be able to execute an infinite loop in just about two minutes :-) Sergey. > > Jim Rogers