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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Annex E (Just curious :-)
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> Admittedly, I don't know all that much about Annex E. But in this situation, why
> wouldn't you prefer to have direct compiler support for putting tasks on
> different processors, rather than mess with Annex E?

Ada tasking pretty much assumes that "all" memory is shared among all
tasks.  Annex E is designed to support the distributed (no shared
memory) case, and also the mixed case (*some* memory is shared -- see
shared passive packages).

- Bob