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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development
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>>Final example, I am sincerely interested in the resolution, you may
>>perceive it as a challenge for an Ada zealot:
>>- http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/ how would you do this in Ada...
>>I really don't know wether to start a six months and up, high risk,
>>project to modify the GNAT runtime, or just use this library in C.
> 
> Why modify the GNAT runtime. This is a library right ? Ada with tasks,
> protected object is certainly in a good position to propose something.
> Maybe starting with AWS is a good idea...

Definitely. This State Threads project seems a waste of time to me. If I 
understand correctly, their objective is increasing web server 
performance by a small factor, namely not changing the order of 
magnitude. To me this is clearly a case where it much less costly to 
achieve the same result by throwing in more hardware. And keep 
programming in AWS with the run time and operative system as it is.