Re: ada is getting spanked :(

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

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
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> 
> 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
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