From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Maximum Number Of Tasks?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:54:18 -0700
Date: 2013-11-12T08:54:18-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l5tiva$55h$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bu-dnfE7TpgzZxzPnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@giganews.com>
On 11/12/2013 02:53 AM, FritzVonBraun wrote:
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> Would I have to do the same in Ada or are tasks meant to be "micro objects' of
> which many can be created and the Ada runtime does effectively what my
> threadpool system does in C++
Tasks should reflect inherent concurrency in the problem space, not some aspect
of the hardware or OS. I have never encountered any problem following this rule,
whether it was 60-70 Ada-83 tasks on a 640 KB DOS system in the 1980s or
hundreds of tasks on Linux this year.
--
Jeff Carter
"We call your door-opening request a silly thing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-12 9:53 Maximum Number Of Tasks? FritzVonBraun
2013-11-12 10:59 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-11-12 12:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-12-06 3:26 ` Brad Moore
2013-11-12 13:21 ` mockturtle
2013-11-12 20:02 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-11-12 20:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-11-12 15:54 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2013-11-12 16:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-14 13:00 ` Marius Amado-Alves
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