From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)
Subject: Re: GNAT for Alpha
Date: 1 Jul 2001 16:30:14 -0700
Date: 2001-07-01T23:30:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17cd177c.0107011530.705582c5@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874rsxx274.fsf@deneb.enyo.de
> >>This leads to another thought. Are there any Ada implementations
> >>targeted to the Itanium chip? Are any in the works. This chip seems
> >>like a good home for Ada.
Florian Weimer:
> I doubt it. Ada with its explicit loops might enable compilers to
> generate better code than they do now for C, but looking at the
> benchmarks, it seems as if the Itanium is a FORTRAN processor.
For the benchmarks it is quite usual that they are in Fortran,
since this language normally has the best optimizing compilers.
Is it a reason to conclude that the CPU is a "Fortran processor" ?
G.
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2001-06-28 16:04 GNAT for Alpha Adrian Hoe
2001-06-28 16:22 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-06-30 12:09 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-06-30 13:21 ` DuckE
2001-07-12 13:45 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-07-12 15:46 ` Cailean Nicholas Pól Gloucester
2001-07-13 2:14 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-17 7:30 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-07-14 8:49 ` Florian Weimer
2001-06-28 18:15 ` James Rogers
2001-06-28 21:55 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-29 0:27 ` Ken Garlington
2001-06-30 18:17 ` Florian Weimer
2001-07-01 23:30 ` Gautier [this message]
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2001-06-29 6:37 ` Gerhard Häring
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