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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,81cf52699486abe7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alfred Hilscher Subject: Re: Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses. Date: 1999/09/29 Message-ID: <37F22BB1.F3524D60@icn.siemens.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 530736417 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37EED7B8.245C0054@yukyonline.co.yuky> <7smp30$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <7sp8m9$a6e$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37F0D03C.DE4807D4@icn.siemens.de> <7srnb9$2u3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <1999Sep29.075617.1@eisner> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Siemens AG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article <7srnb9$2u3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar writes: > > > The size of large programs is a concern, but measuring the > > size of hello world programs has nothing at all to do with > > the size of real programs, since what you are really > > concentrating on here is the default size of the minimal > > run-time library. > Although many people have written small programs for test > purposes, most of them run those programs in environments > tuned for running much larger programs. In fact, if you > run a trivial program on a capable operating system it will > incur all sorts of overhead setting up for the possibility > of multiple DLLs, etc. that are never needed for "Hello World". But - is it really necessary to include e.g. all tasking stuff in simple applications ? I for myself prefer tools that links only the really needed parts together. Fifteen years ago I already heared from Ada vendors that the code _must_ be bigger and slower because Ada is a powerful language. Maybe this is the reason why many people prefer "C". Regards, Alfred