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From: leschkes@ferret.cig.mot.com (Scott Leschke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Multithreading
Date: 23 Nov 94 16:20:34 GMT
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>>The free GNAT Ada 9X compiler is built on top of a POSIX threads
>>library.  Thus, it always uses O/S threads for Ada tasks.

I haven't had the opportunity to use GNAT yet although I've been
the discussions on c.l.a.  Regarding the above statement and a previous
statement made by Bob Dewar regarding the POSSIBLE performance penalty
associated with mapping Ada tasks to OS threads, does GNAT allow you
to specify whether to use OS tasking or not ?  Is this even be possible ?

Scott Leschke