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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!newsfeed.xs3.de!io.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED.rrsoftware.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada lacks lighterweight-than-task parallelism Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:01:51 -0500 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <993f28de-6a64-480b-9c6e-d9714bcdef0d@googlegroups.com> <167bec10-2a52-4c79-958d-91faadad915b@googlegroups.com> <2d6a5ab7-812f-47a9-a958-44177a3cf203@googlegroups.com> <64a526cb-e6d5-44a6-b446-5b652ebe60ca@googlegroups.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 22:01:51 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: franka.jacob-sparre.dk; posting-host="rrsoftware.com:24.196.82.226"; logging-data="32718"; mail-complaints-to="news@jacob-sparre.dk" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.7246 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53457 Date: 2018-06-29T17:01:51-05:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message news:pgdoip$1ntl$1@gioia.aioe.org... ... > How adding features like low-level parallelism makes compiler smaller? Nothing low-level about parallel loops. They're in fact a higher-level construct than an Ada task, since they're checked (by default) for safety problems and any tasking used is implicit. "Parallel" is mainly a hint to the compiler that parallelism can be used (there's almost no case today where a compiler could automatically use parallel code, as there would be a substantial risk of that code being slower than sequential code would be). Randy.