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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada parallelism
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:44:11 -0400
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"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