From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Tasking performance between Ada83 and Ada95
Date: 1997/06/10
Date: 1997-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.865998036@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19970610080401.EAA18524@ladder02.news.aol.com
Pascal says
<<So far, considering respective features of these two runtimes, I see no
difference. Both are switching tasks at the same user level. Both will
have
the same problems regarding blocking IOs, both will never take benefit of
multiprocessing, etc..
>>
No, that's not the case, there is considerable extra overhead in the DCE
case.
I think the closest comparison would be with FSU threads optimized for
no ATC, and no this version is not yet publicly released.
But actually we find most people prefer the version of tasking that links
directly to system threads, even if it is less efficient.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-06 0:00 Tasking performance between Ada83 and Ada95 Mike Rose
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-10 0:00 ` PascMartin
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-07 0:00 ` jim hopper
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Edmond Walsh
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-15 0:00 ` Edmond Walsh
1997-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-06-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-22 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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