Re: basic question on Ada tasks and running on different cores

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> If I use Ada, and create many, many tasks, will these
> tasks automatically be scheduled to run on as many
> different cores as possible so to spread the load and
> achieve the most parallelism possible?

Yes.  Unless you have particular requirements, you don't
have to do anything special.

> Is this something that is controlled by Ada run-time
> automatically, or is it the OS that that is in charge here
> with which task (i.e. thread) runs on which core?

The way GNAT works, it's the OS.  But it doesn't have
to be that way.

- Bob