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Date: 4 May 93 15:18:28 GMT
From: olivea!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!news.oc.com!convex!pelakh@decwrl.dec.com  
(Boris Pelakh)
Subject: Re: ADA Performance
Message-ID: <1993May4.151828.15889@news.eng.convex.com>
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In article <1993May3.075449.12264@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
 writes:
>As a matter of interest, did any of the copmpilers optimise away the
>entire program?  In principle, value tracking and constant folding
>can compute the final value of A at compile time.

Actually, I had to put a use of A (call to a routine) after the timing
ended in order to get any results - otherwise,everything other than the
timing got tossed.


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Boris Pelakh		Ada Project Leader          pelakh@convex.com
		     Convex Computer Corporation
"If winning isn't important, why keep score ?"	-- Lt. Worf, Star Trek TNG.