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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:36:11 +0100
Date: 2011-09-11T11:36:11+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2obyr4b8k.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j4hqvt$6pa$1@dont-email.me

"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 10/09/2011 17:19, Simon Wright a écrit :
>> It used to be that you could configure GNAT to use a tasking RTS that
>> didn't use threads; tasks were scheduled entirely within the RTS. I
>> think these may be called 'green threads'[1]. Of course, this meant that
>> blocking on I/O would block the whole program, but for some purposes it
>> might be ideal.

> No, it used the FSU threads

Thanks, all, for that.

From the Changelog for FSF GCC:

2005-02-09  
	* gnat_ugn.texi: Remove all mentions of FSU threads, which are no
	longer supported.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-11 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-10 15:19 Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS? Simon Wright
2011-09-11  8:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-09-11  9:22   ` John B. Matthews
2011-09-11  9:49     ` anon
2011-09-11 10:29       ` Pascal Obry
2011-09-12  0:33         ` anon
2011-09-12  7:27           ` Simon Wright
2011-09-12  9:26           ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-12  9:49             ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13  1:22               ` anon
2011-09-12 13:01             ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-11 10:36   ` Simon Wright [this message]
2011-09-12  7:19   ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-12 23:22     ` Rugxulo
2011-09-13  7:03       ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13  7:55         ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13  8:30 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-13  9:39   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-13 12:18     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 14:02       ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-13 16:35         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 16:54       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-13 20:35         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 21:22           ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-14  7:58             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 10:57   ` Peter C. Chapin
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