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: 103376,16594902ce57591b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!news.highwinds-media.com!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe4-win.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Multitasking and containers User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <143yx0dos45nx.159wpxvfevtt8.dlg@40tude.net> <1164623427.5986.11.camel@localhost> <1164656708.657952.123430@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:43:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.99.109 X-Trace: newsfe4-win.ntli.net 1164678226 82.21.99.109 (Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:43:46 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:43:46 GMT Organization: NTL Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7717 Date: 2006-11-28T01:43:46+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:45:08 -0800, Matthew Heaney wrote: > Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: >> >> I guess we have different interpretations of "delicate handmade work". I >> took it simply to mean custom implementations tailored to the specific >> project (such as a container that does not need protection for reads). > > But that's the same as saying you can not use anything in the > predefined library. If so then the container library is the least of > your problems! Dmitry wrote: >> Write your own container. Parallel systems require delicate handmade work. (noting a breakdown in logic in this argument... Dmitry said handmade work is required. This does not mean that *only* handmade work is allowed, as Matthew seems to infer.) Actually, I think Dmitry's view is largely valid in practice, if somewhat extreme. -- Adrian