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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88a843cdd1eb738a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeff Carter Subject: Re: Language Challenge 2000 Date: 2000/02/01 Message-ID: <389707D9.2CF4A3FA@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 580440298 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38964D82.3423805@sdynamix.com> <876rjf$h1r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: Tue Feb 1 10:21:40 2000 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 949429300 63.11.145.125 (Tue, 01 Feb 2000 10:21:40 PST) Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jrcarter@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 10:21:40 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jim Rogers wrote: > > In article <38964D82.3423805@sdynamix.com>, > bvoh@sdynamix.com wrote: > > Language Challenge 2000 > > > > Criteria: > > > > a) Execution time > > b) Size of executable > > > > If this is your only criteria for language choice then you should > always use assembler. Let us not forget the case in which the Tartan Ada-83 compiler produced smaller and faster code than the best assembler a team of experts could produce after many months of hand optimization. This was presented in Ada Letters, but I don't have the details about the issue available. Thus, even such a benighted set of criteria does not always argue against high-level languages when an excellent optimizer is available. -- Jeff Carter "We call your door-opening request a silly thing." Monty Python & the Holy Grail