Re: Query about monitor (passive) task optimization

[slinky.cs.nyu.edu!slinky.cs.nyu.edu!nobody@nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Mike assumes that automatic recognition of passive tasks is a good thing.
He is apparently unaware that this is by no means obvious, and indeed most
of the Ada folks in realtime areas that I have talked to do not AT ALL like
the idea of such automatic recognition, and much prefer explicit control
over thread structure.

Many of us felt in the Ada 9X process that the needs for efficient 
tasking would better be met by formalizing and structuring the opportunities
for this kind of task optimization, but it was quite clear that the realtime
community much prefers the explicit approach as exemplified by the protected
type feature of 9X.

I also know that Alsys found in deciding how to proceed that people in 
general much preferred the kind of explicit pragma approach that Verdix
uses to the kind of automatic recognition that DDC does.

So, sure it's nice to see different vendors doing different things and taking
different approaches, but Mike's "finally! at last! someone doing something
reasonable for tasking!" approach is plainly inappropriate.