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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Apex vs GNAT on solaris
Date: 1999/12/09
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In article <384fa0a4.864668076@newsnew.draper.com>, rracine@myremarq.com (Roger Racine) writes:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 06:21:49 GMT, Robert Dewar
> <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:

>>The one disadvantage of the no optimization default seems to
>>be the problem of naive benchmarking, which in fact is the
>>scenario that started this thread.
>>
> 
> Exactly.  Which also could lead to selection of a compiler vendor for
> the wrong reason (See.  I am really only concerned with ACT's
> interests).

But ACT does not really sell compilers (or compiler licenses).
They sell support.

It seems to me that someone who did not understand the effect that
options might have on performance would be a relatively expensive
customer to support.

Larry Kilgallen