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On 11/08/2010 06:50 PM, Anh Vo wrote:
>
> Below are the test results conducted on GNAT 2010 running on Windows
> XP.
>
> Num processors 2
>   1  0.077000009
>   2  0.055627741
>   3  0.023719495
>   4  0.018366580
>   5  0.018512129

Interesting. Perhaps it's something to do with the GNAT version.

> As Robert suggested, I would divide work among tasks by passing
> paramter into each task. For example, in case of two tasks, one task
> handles from rows 1 .. 250 while the other task handle from rows
> 251 .. 500. By the way, the protected singleton type Control is no
> longer needed.

As I said in my initial msg, I did that and got the expected results. It was 
that this version gave different results that bothered me.

Note also that you didn't have to scroll down through irrelevant parts of 3 msgs 
to read my reply.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor,
who nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol,
and who had personally wet himself at the
Battle of Badon Hill."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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