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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:13:24 +0100
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:08:16 +0000 (UTC), "Martin Dowie"
<martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote:

>"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
>news:vjah20tahj48fftkpeghp29ugnojfdd4r4@4ax.com...
>> >3. performance is highly important
>>
>> GNAT is a front end of GNU C...
>
>Not quite...
>...they share a back-end - GNAT does NOT translate Ada source into C as an
>intermediate.

Yes of course, GNU C is just a name of a set of compilers. Important
is that the back-end is same, so it is unlikely for GNAT to be slower
than GNU C. Theoretically Ada as a language should allow better
optimization than C.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de