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Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :(
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:02:32 +0200
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On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 19:45 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:
> cl1 wrote:
> 
> > I just got wind of this site. It would seem that ada, while not at
> > the very bottom, is one of the slowest languages in this benchmark
> > competition:
> > 
> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Looks worse then last time I looked. Seems that some language advocates
> really optimised there implementations.

Don't think so, a more recent GNAT's output is speeding
up, almost keeping pace. For example, comparing the C and Ada versions
of the terribly recursive program using GCC 4.2 on -march=pentium,
the C advantage shrinks: 6.7s (C) : 7.3s (Ada).

The Debian / AMD listing shows 2.68 : 4.00,
the Gentoo / P4 listing shows 2.63 : 10.61

This says something about the volatility of speed comparisons
(probably documented on site). :-)