Re: Game Programming / Graphics

["jsnX" <jason.dusek@gmail.com>]

> Ada's numerics are based on a contract model. Ada's
> numerics are true types. You can have different numeric
> types and the compiler will prevent you from mixing them,
> if you do not define corresponding operations. As
> types they may have constrained subtypes with range
> checks enforced. Other differences are that Ada has
> fixed point binary and decimal numbers additionally to
> the floating-point ones.

sounds pretty neat, but is it computationally expensive? if i write
numeric stuff in Ada (vector operations, special functions, physics
stuff) will it be in general:
    a) slower than the same stuff written in good (templated) C++
    b) faster than the same stuff written in good (templated) C++
    c) hard to say - sometimes faster, sometimes slower
    d) hard to say - depends heavily on compiler
    e) other - please write in
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jsnX