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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/05/18
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In article <3740C535.7C6200A8@gte.net>, "Clifford J. Nelson" <cnelson9@gte.net> writes:

> The following computations (leaving out all the with statements that you
> need for the Mac) take ten seconds on an iMac 266 MHertz Mac OS 8.5.1
> with the CodeBuilder Ada95 GNU from Tenon. I think it should run ten
> times faster.
> 
> Is Ada95 slow in order to be safe?
> Is GNU Ada95 slower than most Adas?
> Is the iMac slow? Mac OS 8.5.1 slow?  CodeBuilder?
> Why does it take so long?

Where is it spending its time ?

Faced with a particular performance problem, there is nothing like
measurement to tell you the source of the problem.

Larry Kilgallen