From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1d575f572a099528 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-03 06:43:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-austin!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3c08314d$0$158$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> <9uau3a$79113$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3c093895$0$160$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> Subject: Re: What is faster Ada or C? Message-ID: <2cMO7.46841$xS6.76274@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 09:43:10 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:43:10 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17335 Date: 2001-12-03T14:43:10+00:00 List-Id: In article , Mark Lundquist says... > >The run-time checks are valuable, and a habit of compiling everything with >checks suppressed may result in a lot of needless time spent debugging. > >I'd recommend using pragma Suppress in the source code (or as a >configuration pragma), in only the performance-intensive parts of your >program. I'd go further than that: You should only supress checks when analysis (including actual measurement) shows that you need the extra speed that you get by doing this. Don't leave C, only to reproduce its buffer overflow exploits in Ada. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.