* Current GNAT Status
@ 1993-06-10 21:42 cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.
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From: cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng. @ 1993-06-10 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
The GNAT project is delighted to report that the GNAT compiler was
successfully boostrapped yesterday, June 9, at 12:23 pm. The standard
verification procedure was used:
a) The GNAT sources were compiled with the Alsys compiler, to produce
executable G1.
b) G1, the interface program Gigi, and GCC, were used to compile the
GNAT sources and produce executable G2.
c) When applied to the GNAT sources, G2 reproduced itself byte for byte.
Thanks to the portability of GCC, within minutes of the replication on the
SUN/SPARC the same replication was achieved on the DEC/Alpha.
Although this is an important milestone for the project, we should
emphasize that GNAT is written in a subset of Ada83, and for now only
compiles a (sizeable) subset of Ada9X. We are fully aware of what remains
to be done.
The performance of the bootstrapped GNAT is gratifying. Timing figures are
very preliminary: currently inlining is not performed. We expect the final
version to gain an additional factor of 2 in speed over the current one.
Given these caveats, the following figures should be of interest:
a) The GNAT sources (82,000 lines of text, 26000 semicolons) are fully
parsed in 35 seconds on a SPARC/IPX, and in 5.3 seconds on the Alpha.
b) Full semantic analysis of all sources takes 112 seconds on the SPARC.
(including generation of intermediate file).
c) Semantics, code generation, assembly and linking takes 389 seconds on
the SPARC.
The above figures were obtained running GNAT with no debuuging checks and
no constraint checks.
The GNAT project:
-----------------
Bernard Banner
Cyrille Comar
Robert Dewar
Sam Figueroa
Franco Gasperoni
Richard Kenner
Bruno Leclerc
Brett Porter
Ed Schonberg
Gail Schenker
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* Re: Current GNAT Status
@ 1993-06-11 14:37 David Tannen x8273
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From: David Tannen x8273 @ 1993-06-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
Congrats on completing this important milestone on the GNAT project.
David Tannen
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