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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:08:19 +0300
Date: 2016-07-07T09:08:19+03:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <du69ugF3631U1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nlk7v4$p2s$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk>

On 16-07-07 03:32 , Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:nliir0$1a7l$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>> On 05/07/2016 23:53, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> ...
>>> Nothing in the core language of Ada requires tasks to be pre-emptive.
>>
>> Some applications rely on time sharing and most do on close to instant
>> switching to a task of higher priority.
>
> Priorities are evil and almost always used poorly, that is to do something
> that should be accomplished explicitly with locking or the like. No system
> I'm contemplating has any priorities.

Are you not contemplating any real-time systems? If you are, what do you 
use instead of priorites, to ensure that urgent activities are done in time?

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
niklas holsti tidorum fi
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-07  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17  9:44 RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-17 16:18 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-06-17 16:46   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-18  8:16     ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18  8:47       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-18  9:17         ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 11:53           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-20  8:23             ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-20  9:22               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-23  1:42       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-23  8:39         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-23 22:12           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-24  7:34             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-24 23:00               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-25  7:11                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-26  2:02                   ` rieachus
2016-06-26  6:26                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-24  0:38           ` rieachus
2016-06-25  6:28             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-26  1:34               ` rieachus
2016-06-26  3:21               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-26  6:15                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-28 20:44                   ` Anh Vo
2016-07-02  4:13                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02 10:25                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-05 21:53                       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-06  9:25                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-07  0:32                           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-07  6:08                             ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2016-07-08  0:03                               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-08  7:32                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-11 19:40                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-12  8:37                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-12 21:31                                       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-08 20:17                                 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-06-24 21:06         ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-26  3:09           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-26  6:41             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-02  4:21               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02 10:33                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-05 21:24                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-06 13:46                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-07  1:00                       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-07 14:23                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-07 23:43                           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-08  8:23                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-11 19:44                               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-26  9:09             ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02  4:36               ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02  5:30                 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-05 21:29                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02 11:13                 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02 13:18                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-02 16:49                     ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02 21:33                       ` Niklas Holsti
2016-07-03 20:56                         ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02 17:26                   ` Niklas Holsti
2016-07-02 21:14                   ` Niklas Holsti
2016-07-03  7:42                     ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-03  8:39                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-03 21:15                         ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-04  7:44                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-05 21:38                   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-21  2:40     ` rieachus
2016-06-21  7:34       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-18  7:56   ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18  8:33 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 11:38 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 13:17   ` Niklas Holsti
2016-06-18 16:27   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-06-20  8:42 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-10  0:45 ` rieachus
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