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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/20
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In reply to...
> > How many grahics intensive computer games are being written in Ada?  
> > That's really out of it's intended realm, so I would hazard to guess
not 
> > many.

Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote in article
<m2ragbrmij.fsf@acm.org>...
> But you could.  You might be able to squeak a little more performance
> out of C by using tricks, but probably not that much.

In fact, there is nothing that could be squeezed out of using C or C++ that
could not be squeezed out of using a good Ada compiler. Quite the opposite.
The general principle is that the more information a compiler is given, the
more optimisation it can perform. An Ada program gives more information
than the equivalent C or C++ program. So, more optimisation is possible. I
speakee as one who nose :-)

Nick.