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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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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.