From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:22:32 -0400
Date: 2011-09-11T05:22:32-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nospam-6370B2.05223211092011@news.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j4hqvt$6pa$1@dont-email.me
In article <j4hqvt$6pa$1@dont-email.me>, "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
wrote:
> Le 10/09/2011 17:19, Simon Wright a écrit :
> > It used to be that you could configure GNAT to use a tasking RTS that
> > didn't use threads; tasks were scheduled entirely within the RTS. I
> > think these may be called 'green threads'[1]. Of course, this meant that
> > blocking on I/O would block the whole program, but for some purposes it
> > might be ideal.
> >
> No, it used the FSU threads
FSU threads were used to implement Ada tasking in Tenon's MachTen and
CodeBuilder products for Mac OS 9.
<http://www.tenon.com/products/machten/>
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-10 15:19 Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS? Simon Wright
2011-09-11 8:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-09-11 9:22 ` John B. Matthews [this message]
2011-09-11 9:49 ` anon
2011-09-11 10:29 ` Pascal Obry
2011-09-12 0:33 ` anon
2011-09-12 7:27 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-12 9:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-12 9:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13 1:22 ` anon
2011-09-12 13:01 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-11 10:36 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-12 7:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-12 23:22 ` Rugxulo
2011-09-13 7:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13 7:55 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-09-13 8:30 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-13 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-13 12:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 14:02 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-13 16:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 16:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-13 20:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 21:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-14 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-13 10:57 ` Peter C. Chapin
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