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: 103376,4b12a5cee4778f63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: GNAT & GCC performace (bad news) Date: 1999/12/09 Message-ID: <384FEBF9.5F4F6BD2@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 558645050 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38473D90.68D8F47@acenet.com.au> <1999Dec3.103807.1@eisner> <82fgh2$mt3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <1999Dec6.073729.1@eisner> <82hn65$a5o$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 944761852 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:50:52 CST) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:50:52 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > The trouble is that a lot of information is lost in going from > Ada to C. In particular, the typing information, which is > extremely valuable for many kinds of optimization (e.g. alias > analysis) is simply lost in the translation to C. But how much (if any) of this information is also lost by going from Ada to the common intermediate format used by the GCC suite?