From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada??
Date: 15 Jul 2005 16:10:12 -0500
Date: 2005-07-15T16:10:12-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r9Qp05lNFo7O@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8764vcdv2f.fsf@deneb.enyo.de
In article <8764vcdv2f.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> I also fail to see Ada's advantages because Ada tasking tends to match
> poorly to concurrency models supported by operating systems. For
> example, how can you add a select alternative which waits for activity
> on a specific file descriptor, without introducing many pointless
> context switches?
I don't know "file descriptor" as an Ada term, but presuming you mean
activity on a file, I would use the VMS Lock Manager requesting an AST
when there is activity (if I were creating an Ada implementation).
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2005-07-14 11:34 Isn't this in favour of Ada?? Erlo Haugen
2005-07-14 14:56 ` Mike Silva
2005-07-14 16:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-14 18:06 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-07-15 13:05 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-19 17:03 ` James Alan Farrell
2005-07-19 17:31 ` Ed Falis
2005-07-20 11:49 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-19 11:40 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-19 17:10 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-19 15:41 ` Dan McLeran
2005-07-19 17:17 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-07-20 2:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-20 5:13 ` Dan McLeran
2005-07-22 7:30 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-22 13:12 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-07-22 13:36 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-22 14:24 ` Dan McLeran
2005-07-22 14:29 ` Bob Spooner
2005-07-23 13:02 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-22 18:01 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-07-22 15:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-15 14:04 ` Florian Weimer
2005-07-15 21:10 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2005-07-18 12:37 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-18 12:57 ` Ed Falis
2005-07-18 13:18 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-18 14:12 ` Ed Falis
2005-07-19 12:51 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-19 18:08 ` Robert A Duff
2005-07-20 5:12 ` Simon Wright
2005-07-20 15:37 ` Robert A Duff
2005-07-21 12:15 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-21 15:32 ` Robert A Duff
2005-07-20 12:26 ` Marin David Condic
2005-10-27 7:20 ` Robert I. Eachus
2005-08-04 12:59 ` Florian Weimer
2005-08-05 14:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-05 16:58 ` Florian Weimer
2005-08-05 23:15 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-06 4:01 ` tmoran
2005-08-06 10:28 ` Pascal Obry
2005-08-06 10:33 ` Pascal Obry
2005-08-06 11:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-07-21 13:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-07-22 7:39 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-22 9:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-07-22 10:41 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-22 14:28 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-07-22 15:02 ` Pascal Obry
2005-07-25 9:48 ` Tassilo v. Parseval
2005-07-25 13:31 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-07-25 15:08 ` Jerome Hugues
2005-07-25 15:58 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-07-25 21:03 ` Jerome Hugues
2005-07-26 6:03 ` Tassilo v. Parseval
2005-07-25 16:39 ` Pascal Obry
2005-07-26 5:58 ` Tassilo v. Parseval
2005-07-26 17:25 ` Pascal Obry
2005-07-22 15:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
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