From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,115bda8caeda5fa4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder.news-service.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Does GNAT support a thread-free RTS? Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:22:32 -0400 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:21864 Date: 2011-09-11T05:22:32-04:00 List-Id: In article , "J-P. Rosen" 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. -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com