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: 103376,1ea19776e3073a96 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Paul Graham Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator. Date: 2000/04/03 Message-ID: <38E8F9C4.6D0E137@cadence.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 606215253 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38e148e2.5089627@news.shreve.net> <38E2E979.3D1A95DE@research.canon.com.au> <38e7e951.8384503@news.shreve.net> <8c7j8c$plf$1@wanadoo.fr> <8c80ms$jnk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Cadence Design Systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: It sounds like the Realia compiler ran about as fast as grep or some similar text scanning program. How did you achieve such compiler speed? Is there something about COBOL that makes it easier to compile than Ada? Paul > That's a bit extreme, but I know what you mean. In particular > the whole Realia COBOL team knew the compiler very well and > what it generated, and that was one of the reasons this > compiler is so fast (it compiles high quality run-time code > for COBOL at a very high speed -- well over 100,000 lines a > minute on a 25MHz 386, I have no idea how it does on a > gigahertz Pentium, should be several million lines a minute :-)