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From: "Isaac Gouy" <igouy@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :(
Date: 29 Oct 2006 16:17:02 -0800
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Isaac Gouy wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >> And there is still one test missing for Ada.
> >>
> >> Martin
> >> --
> >> mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net
> >> Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com
> >
> > The positions for the compiled languages shuffled around a bit after we
> > made an effort to use the same gcc compiler options on all the language
> > implementations that would take them.
>
> I see. perhaps we should have a look at the options used for Ada - there are
> a few performace options for GNAT only.
>
> > And at least on Gentoo, after upgrading to gcc 4.1.1 I'm not that sure
> > which version of GNAT we should be using?
>
> 4.1.* is usually good for Ada - and as we recently found out improves
> performance as well.
>
> Martin
> --
> mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net
> Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com

The Gentoo/Intel website has now been updated, and the Ada measurements
are for GNAT 4.1.1

There were several small performance improvements but the largest
improvement was for recursive.