From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:39:19 +0200
Date: 2016-06-23T10:39:19+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nkg78j$1keu$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nkfeqn$nl8$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk
On 23/06/2016 03:42, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> I'd like to understand better the motivations for these features, so if you
> (or anyone else) wants to try to explain them to me, feel free.
The motivation is a two-liner. Let you have some consumer of data:
procedure Write (Buffer : String; Last : out Integer);
It may take less than the whole string when called, but will take more
data later. So, the parameter Last. Now you want to write a program in a
*normal* way:
Write ("This");
Write ("That");
That's it.
This applies to all kinds of asynchronous communication and naturally to
all kinds of parallel and distributed programming.
Ada tasks + blocking exchange are far too heavy-weight for many
applications. Consider a server handling 1K connections as an example or
a tiny embedded board running HTTP server, MQTT server, MODBUS client +
dozens of other protocols etc.
Protected objects + non-blocking exchange are OK, but you will have to
design your program standing on your head = saving the state between
portions of data, running a complicated state machine. This is not
scalable and unmaintainable.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2016-06-17 9:44 RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-17 16:18 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-06-17 16:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-18 8:16 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-18 9:17 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 11:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-20 8:23 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-20 9:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-23 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-23 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2016-06-23 22:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-24 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-24 23:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-25 7:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-26 2:02 ` rieachus
2016-06-26 6:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-24 0:38 ` rieachus
2016-06-25 6:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-26 1:34 ` rieachus
2016-06-26 3:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-26 6:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-28 20:44 ` Anh Vo
2016-07-02 4:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02 10:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-05 21:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-06 9:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-07 0:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-07 6:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-07-08 0:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-08 7:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-11 19:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-12 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-12 21:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-08 20:17 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-06-24 21:06 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-26 3:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-26 6:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-02 4:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02 10:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-05 21:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-06 13:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-07 1:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-07 14:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-07 23:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-08 8:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-11 19:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-26 9:09 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02 4:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02 5:30 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-05 21:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-07-02 11:13 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02 13:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-02 16:49 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02 21:33 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-07-03 20:56 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-02 17:26 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-07-02 21:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-07-03 7:42 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-03 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-03 21:15 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-04 7:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-07-05 21:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-06-21 2:40 ` rieachus
2016-06-21 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-18 7:56 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 8:33 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 11:38 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-06-18 13:17 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-06-18 16:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-06-20 8:42 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-07-10 0:45 ` rieachus
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