From: "Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com>
Subject: Re: Ada to C/C++ translator needed
Date: 1996/09/28
Date: 1996-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bbad6e$67743f20$32ee6fcf@timhome2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52feul$os2@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote in article
<52feul$os2@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>...
> In article 4B5E@magic.fr, Emmanuel Champommier <echampommier@magic.fr> ()
writes:
> >I'm looking for an Ada to C (or C++) translator.
>
> wardi@rsd.bel.alcatel.be (Ian Ward) writes:
> >[He thinks it would be hard and points out that Ada compilers
> > are now very good.]
>
> Just for the record, here's the result of a speed test between C, Ada,
> Scheme, and Fortran versions of the same numerical program, on an
UltraSPARC.
> cc and f77 are SPARCompiler C and Fortran version 4.0.
> gnat is 3.04 with gcc back end 2.7.2. stalin was version 0.6.
>
> cc 30 seconds
> gnat 27 seconds
> stalin 26 seconds (Siskind's Scheme->C then gcc 2.7.2)
> f77 25 seconds
>
> The f77 code came from a book. I wrote the C, Ada, and Scheme versions.
> I am fluent in C and Scheme, striving to become so in Ada.
>
> I can't think of any reason to convert the Ada code to C,
> especially as the Ada compiler that got this result is free
> and supports the Ada 95 *standard* interface with C, so that calling
> existing C code from Ada is a breeze.
I hope you're not suggesting that comparing compilers on one
system with one program tells you *anything* about the relative
merits of languages ...
-- Tim Behrendsen (tim@a-sis.com)
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-25 0:00 Ada to C/C++ translator needed Emmanuel Champommier
1996-09-25 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-02 0:00 ` B|rje Norden
1996-10-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Erik Magnuson
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <52feul$os2@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen [this message]
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-02 0:00 Simon Johnston
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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