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From: Pascal Obry <obry@act-europe.fr>
Subject: Re: Problem with -gnatt
Date: 20 Oct 2004 17:08:57 +0200
Date: 2004-10-20T17:08:57+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <umzyhbf5i.fsf@act-europe.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.39.1098278589.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org


Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:

> On the other hand, if by "IO" you mean "a potentially blocking

That's it :)

> An hour without a blocking operation. I'm computing PI, or filtering
> for ET messages, or something. And I'm on a really slow machine. Ada must
> work in a _very_ wide range of circumstances!

Ok not everybody computes PI, and an hour without a single "blocking
operation" (IO are in this category) means that you have all the data in
memory. Even on a slow computer you can parse gigabytes of data!

> No, "blocking operations" is what we have to keep in mind.

Agreed.

Pascal.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20 13:22 Problem with -gnatt Stephen Leake
2004-10-20 15:08 ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2004-10-20 16:23   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-20 16:38     ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-20 20:05       ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-23 20:12       ` Niklas Holsti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-20  1:34 Stephen Leake
2004-10-20  6:37 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20  9:19 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-07 10:40 Javadoc-like for Ada Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-07 11:46 ` stephane richard
2004-10-07 13:05   ` Marc A. Criley
2004-10-07 13:39     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-07 16:51       ` Problem with -gnatt (was Re: Javadoc-like for Ada) Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-07 19:21         ` Problem with -gnatt Ludovic Brenta
2004-10-08  8:45           ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-08  9:43             ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-08 13:09               ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-09 14:17                 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-15 20:11                   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-18  7:59                     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-08 16:52             ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-10-09 14:16             ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-09 14:45               ` Jeff C r e e.m
2004-10-10 12:25                 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-10-10 14:42                 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-15 20:03               ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-16 13:16                 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-15 20:00             ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-15 20:06             ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-18  7:59               ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-18 16:48                 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-18 18:21                   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-19  0:20                     ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19  2:41                       ` Brian May
2004-10-19  3:08                         ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19  7:15                           ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-19 14:52                             ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19 15:46                               ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-19 20:03                                 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19 20:38                                   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-23  6:28                                   ` Brian May
2004-10-24  5:45                                     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-24  8:54                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-20  1:20                         ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-20 14:48                           ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19  7:36                       ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-20  5:19                         ` Simon Wright
2004-10-20  7:59                           ` Alex R. Mosteo
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