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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada parallelism
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:44:11 -0400
Date: 2010-03-25T09:44:11-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccljdgsehg.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 109zj9fwa9gxm.1on0bs4bmjkhs.dlg@40tude.net

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> I believe that Ada's tasks on massively parallel processors could really
> shine if compiler supported. Especially because Ada's parameter passing
> model is so flexible to support both memory sharing and marshaling. Well,
> there is a problem with tagged types which are by-reference, this must be
> fixed (e.g. by providing "tagged" types without tags, and thus copyable).

Tagged types are passed by copy when doing a remote procedure call.
By "by copy" I mean marshalling/unmarshalling, which of course
involves copying the data.  Or did you mean something else?

- Bob



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2010-03-24 14:55       ` Threadpool with priority version 1.1 Georg Bauhaus
2010-03-24 16:40         ` Warren
2010-03-24 18:27           ` Ada parallelism (was: Re: Threadpool with priority version 1.1 ...) Georg Bauhaus
2010-03-24 20:04             ` Warren
2010-03-25  8:24               ` Ada parallelism Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-03-25 13:44                 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2010-03-25 14:09                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-03-24 21:46           ` Threadpool with priority version 1.1 Maciej Sobczak
2010-03-25 17:21             ` Warren
2010-03-25 17:30             ` Warren
2010-03-26  8:19               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-03-26  9:30                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-03-26 19:35                   ` Warren
2010-03-25  8:39         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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