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,e44790cdcea9da82 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with -gnatt References: From: Pascal Obry Date: 20 Oct 2004 17:08:57 +0200 Message-ID: Organization: ACT Europe - http://www.act-europe.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: AVelizy-151-2-4-106.w82-120.abo.wanadoo.fr X-Trace: 1098284937 news.wanadoo.fr 15138 82.120.28.106:4575 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5525 Date: 2004-10-20T17:08:57+02:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595