Re: basic question on Ada tasks and running on different cores

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"NatarovVI" <4KCheshireCat@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> you just can not do it in imperative, intertwined with dependencies,
> lobotomized manner. in functional languages - you can.

Sure, but I'm skeptical that the vast majority of programmers can deal with 
any programming language that has the level of non-determinism needed to 
support useful parallelism. Functional programming languages make this 
worse, if anything.

Secondly, I'm skeptical that any language attempting fine-grained 
parallelism can ever perform anywhere near as well as a language using 
coarse parallelism (like Ada) and deterministic sequential semantics for the 
rest. Any parallelism requires scheduling overhead, and that overhead is 
going to be a lot higher for the fine-grained case, simply because there is 
a lot more of it needed (even if it is conceptually simpler).

There are of course special cases where neither issue is a problem or can be 
worked around, but for general purpose programming (especially embedded 
programming, which is pretty much the only *real* programming going on today 
:-), I don't see it happening. I wouldn't mind being wrong (even though it 
would mean the end of my programming career; I already know that I'm not 
productive in non-Ada languages - I cannot tolerate debugging very often).

                                         Randy.