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From: "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can someone help me with this code (explanation)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:15:51 +0200
Date: 2014-09-26T16:15:51+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m03sdr$5d8$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m03nc0$k10$1@dont-email.me>

On 2014-09-26 14:49, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 26/09/2014 13:48, Björn Lundin a écrit :
>> Some people in this group likes to optimize code.
>> Having a render-vouz between two tasks, I think,
>> is more expensive that calling a protected object.

> Hmm... Anything related to efficiency should be backed by measurements.

http://www.sigada.org/conf/sa98/papers/mueller.pdf

I did not read all of it, but the conclusion is that
context switches are bad for performance.
If a protected object can REPLACE a task, it
will show in measurements. (and they did measure)

However, it is tested with gnat 3.10,
so things might be different now.

And I now learned that render-vouz is spelled rendezvous


--
Björn


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-26 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-25 13:44 can someone help me with this code (explanation) Stribor40
2014-09-25 14:56 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-25 15:01   ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-25 15:54   ` Stribor40
2014-09-25 17:11     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-25 19:41       ` Stribor40
2014-09-25 19:53         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-25 20:10         ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-25 22:27           ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-26  7:04             ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26  7:58               ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-26 10:24                 ` G.B.
2014-09-26 11:48                 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 12:49                   ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-26 14:15                     ` Björn Lundin [this message]
2014-09-26 14:49                       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-26 15:31                         ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 16:08                           ` G.B.
2014-09-30  4:22                             ` Brad Moore
2014-09-30 21:59                               ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-10-01 15:38                                 ` Brad Moore
2014-09-26 16:23                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-09-26 20:38                           ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-27 18:16                             ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 16:43                       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-26 16:45                 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-10-09  2:45                   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-26 16:44             ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-26  5:06           ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-25 16:53 ` Jeffrey Carter
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