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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:32:39 -0500
Date: 2016-07-06T19:32:39-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nlk7v4$p2s$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nliir0$1a7l$1@gioia.aioe.org

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
news:nliir0$1a7l$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> On 05/07/2016 23:53, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> Nothing in the core language of Ada requires tasks to be pre-emptive.
>
> Some applications rely on time sharing and most do on close to instant 
> switching to a task of higher priority.

Priorities are evil and almost always used poorly, that is to do something 
that should be accomplished explicitly with locking or the like. No system 
I'm contemplating has any priorities.

                                  Randy.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-07  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
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 [this message]
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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