Re: [sv-bc] Can a function contain a fork/join/any/none?

Non-member submission from Ambar Sarkar

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:43 PM

By time consuming, I meant in the latter sense primarily. Another way to
think of it is that fork join_any/all can be potentially time consuming,
but
fork/join none statement can never be so regardless of where it is
called,
function or not.

Regards,
-Ambar


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of
Steven
Sharp
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:14 PM
To: Dave_Rich@mentor.com; sv-ec@eda.org; sv-bc@eda.org;
ambar.sarkar@paradigm-works.com
Subject: RE: [sv-ec] Can a function contain a fork/join/any/none?


>From: "Ambar Sarkar" <ambar.sarkar@paradigm-works.com>

>Is there a definition of the term "time consuming"? A fork/join
none(not
the
>others) is non time consuming as far as I understand.

The others are not "time consuming" either.  They block to wait for one
or
all of their subprocesses to complete, but those subprocesses cannot
consume
time before completing, so that blocking does not consume any time.

If you define "time consuming" to mean blocking to wait for something,
even
if that cannot consume any time, then you are correct.  Both fork/join
and
fork/join_any will block, while fork/join_none will not.

Steven Sharp
sharp@cadence.com