Re: RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
news:nlnnvt$d3f$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> On 08/07/2016 01:43, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> In any case, there would be no issue unless the programmer writes their 
>> own
>> I/O; using anything we provide (language-defined or 
>> implementation-defined)
>> would work. I'd think the vast majority of Ada programs would use 
>> Stream_IO
>> compared to something of their own design. (Sockets is the big issue, 
>> since
>> the language doesn't have it, but portable libraries can easily be made 
>> to
>> do the right thing.)
>
> Yes, a numeric application need none of this stuff. But new shiny things 
> in Ada appear in embedded and distributed systems moving some real 
> hardware. These are the areas where problems arise. And as Gnoga will gain 
> its popularity the same questions will appear for fat server applications.

I'm no expert in embedded systems, so I'll not comment there. As far as fat 
servers go, I have several of those running there this way, and whatever 
problems they have aren't related to the tasking model. (Mostly seem to have 
contention issues with shared data, which isn't surprising to me.)

                                Randy.