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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Q: access to subprogram
Date: 1996/07/26
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Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> 
>         Ada (using generic instantiation)
>                 compiled with gnatmake -gnatp -cargs -O4
>                 Size: 94 lines.

I don't know how to read the gnat command lines, so could some one tell me
if this means all exceptions are suppressed?

Also, is source line size being given here as a measure of efficiency? What
were the other measures compared to the alternatives (readability, reusability,
etc.)?

> I guess Scheme running 3 times faster than Ada or Pascal is not "intuitive"
> for many programmers.

It's certainly not intuitive to _me_. However, I would certainly have no problem 
with a statement that a particular Scheme toolset might generate code that is 
three times more efficient than an Ada _toolset_, for a given host/target 
platform. (Do we really believe GNAT is the most efficient Ada compiler available, 
for example? I keep reading that not all optimizations have been implemented in 
GNAT yet...)


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