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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: William Clodius Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada? Date: 1999/02/21 Message-ID: <36D04E2D.4487@lanl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447533252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7afttr$7v3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aganu$qsc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <36CC11A1.C7A71642@hercii.mar.lmco.com> <7ahkn0$kab$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <36CC6AC0.25DBE56D@erols.com> <7aikfp$nhq$3@plug.news.pipex.net> <7ajkhb$dol$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aknfn$au1$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <36CDE19E.2F1C@lanl.gov> <7ald0t$sb$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7anl92$om3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: To summarize - language design can make specific optimizations easier, but the importance of those optimizations is code dependent and the degree to which those optimizations are exploited is compiler dependent. It is not unknown given two different compilers to have one of them do twice as well as the other on one code and then do half as well on another code. I have not seen comparable benchmarks for another language, but the Fortran benchmarks available through Polyedron's page http://www.polyhedron.com/ show such variations (particularly for Fortran 90). -- William B. Clodius Phone: (505)-665-9370 Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NIS-2 FAX: (505)-667-3815 PO Box 1663, MS-C323 Group office: (505)-667-5776 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Email: wclodius@lanl.gov