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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again,
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Date: 1996/10/30
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Kenneth Almquist wrote:
> [snip]
>
> There may be no distributed overhead, but there certainly is overhead.
> Here are some numbers from a toy benchmark:
> 
>         Ada with Unbounded_String:  10.02 seconds
>         Icon (interpreted):          1.45 seconds
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I suspect that automatic garbage collection is required to implement
> unbounded strings efficiently.  In Icon, the assignment "b := a" can
> be performed by simply copying a pointer.

If Icon is assigning pointers, and Ada is copying values, these are NOT
comparable benchmarks! To get a real comparison, the semantics must
match.

>                                 Kenneth Almquist
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- Stephe