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On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:40:38 PM UTC+1, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> A quick idea.  Assume that some subprogram Op from package P
> is reentrant (and does not depend on global state). Then,
> 
> with P;
> ...
>    for K in all First .. Last loop
>        P.Op (K);
>    end loop;
> 
> should have the effect of the following being permitted:
> 
> (a) to pick K from  First .. Last  in any order
> 
> (b) to execute P (J) in parallel with P (K) for J, K from
> First .. Last
> 

You should take a look at Tucker Tafts blog about ParaSail,

"ParaSail allows many things to proceed in parallel by default, effectively inserting implicit parallelism everywhere"

http://parasail-programming-language.blogspot.com/2009/09/parasail-language-themes-and-philosophy.html

-- 
~egilhh