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From: Jeff Carter <carter@innocon.com>
Subject: Re: Ada versus Java - Tasking
Date: 1997/01/23
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David Taylor wrote:
...
> 
> As I was reading this post, I wondered how these timings would compare with
> a lowly Apple 120MHz 604 running GNAT 3.07 on top of MachTen.  Some numbers
> I got using the same gnatmake above were:
> 
> home/dave/prod> prod_cons
>  4.916670000
> /home/dave/prod> prod_cons
>  5.000000000
> /home/dave/prod> prod_cons
>  5.066664000
> /home/dave/prod> prod_cons
>  4.583350000
> /home/dave/prod> prod_cons
>  4.699972000
> /home/dave/prod> prod_cons
>  4.566644000
> /home/dave/prod>
> 
> Since the processors are comparable, I suspect the most improvement in time
> is because of 3.07.  I no longer have 3.05 installed, so I can't check the
> timing with it.  Anyway, not too shabby.
> 
> Dave

GNAT 3.07 for DOS on the same machine (as the 18-second results) gives
results in the 5.5 .. 5.8 second range for a more complicated problem.
GNAT 3.04a for Win95 was about 29 seconds for this problem on this
machine. Could it be that 3.07 does tasking better than 3.04a?
-- 
Jeff Carter
Innovative Concepts, Inc.