Re: compiler benchmark comparisons

[andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu (Dan Andreatta)]

> examples like this in detail, we discover that what
> people think are "identical" programs are in fact totally different

Er... you are right. (At this time Google hasn't reported any reply). 
I did some more experiments, and the bottleneck for the compiler was
in the genration of the code for Integer'Image(). I modified the loop,
and now it look more like the C version, relying on the I/O library
(using Ada.Integer_Text_IO).
Amazingly, now it compiles in about 2 seconds. Summarizing, these are
the data (below are the fragments of the codes used):

                      GNU/C      GNU/Ada (1)      GNU/Ada (2)    
GNU/Ada (3)
Source size (kB)       45           82              103             
97
Object size (kB)       63          503              503            
109

time to compile (s)   1.4         11.0              8.0            
2.2

compiled with gcc -c file.adb (no switches)

In conclusion... draw your own conclusion. 

Memo for me: next time don't spare resources, use at lest 2 neurons
:-)

The codes for the loops (repeated 1000 times) were:

GNU/C
for (i=0; i<100; ++i)
  printf("%d\n",i);

GNU/Ada (1)
for i in 1..100 loop
  ada.text_io.put_line( Integer'Image(i) );
end loop;

GNU/Ada (2)
i := 0;
while i<100 loop
  ada.text_io.put_line( Integer'Image(i) );
end loop;

GNU/Ada (3)
for i in 1..100 loop
  ada.integer_text_io.put( i );
  ada.text_io.new_line;
end loop;