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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
Subject: Re: Need some light on using Ada or not
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:57:12 +0000
Date: 2011-02-20T19:57:12+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcs2m6hv8hbkboqoeli3pbg29oj09slesu@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4D617036.4080902@obry.net

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:49:10 +0100, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:

>Jonathan,
>
>> If you want a multi-core Ada version, this might be a good
>> place to break out the Annex E (distributed systems) approach.
>
>I really don't see how a distributed application could run faster than a 
>multi-threaded one on a single machine! So PolyORB is certainly not the 
>solution to this problem.

You are probably right ... unless PolyOrb performs better than the 100% overhead
(on this test case) imposed by the pthread library (which I think is how Gnat
implements its tasking)

- Brian.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18 22:52 Need some light on using Ada or not Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-18 23:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-19 14:25   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-19  0:20 ` Edward Fish
2011-02-20  0:13   ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-20  1:36     ` Marc A. Criley
2011-02-20  9:59     ` mockturtle
2011-02-20 10:37     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 11:08     ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01  8:10     ` Adrian Hoe
2011-03-01  8:29       ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-04 13:34         ` Adrian Hoe
2011-02-19  8:43 ` Vadim Godunko
2011-02-19 13:07 ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 14:17   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-19 18:02     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 18:07       ` Bill Findlay
2011-02-20 10:42         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-19 14:36   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-19 18:25     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 14:34       ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 15:45         ` jonathan
2011-02-20 16:18           ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 19:49           ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 19:57             ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2011-02-20 20:10               ` jonathan
2011-02-20 21:15                 ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 21:26                   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 21:33                     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 21:36                     ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-20 21:50                       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 22:18                   ` jonathan
2011-02-20 22:47               ` Simon Wright
2011-02-21 12:52                 ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-21 13:44                   ` Simon Wright
2011-02-24  0:19                     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-24  7:41                       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2011-02-22  2:15                   ` Shark8
2011-02-20 16:42       ` jonathan
2011-02-20 20:02         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20  0:20   ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-20 10:50     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 19:54     ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-23 22:19       ` Luis P. Mendes
2011-02-24 17:06         ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-27 17:51           ` Luis P. Mendes
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