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: Gautier Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator. Date: 2000/04/06 Message-ID: <38ECE79C.4F70D434@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 607684379 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> <38E8F9C4.6D0E137@cadence.com> <8ciddt$2v7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <2000Apr6.125002.1@eisner> <8cikrf$aqh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 6 Apr 2000 21:38:04 +0100, mac13-32.unine.ch Organization: Maths - Uni =?iso-8859-1?Q?Neuch=E2tel?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > > A faster compiler can result in a considerably larger number > > of compilations to reach the same end result, possibly with a > > much longer wall clock time. Robert Dewar wrote: > That's an argument more appropriate to the 70's than now. > For a long time now, compilers have been fast enough on most > machines (perhaps not on Vaxes running VMS :-) that working > on individual modules (the most normal case), recompiling > and relinking are fast enough in most environments that this > is not a major barrier. There is an exception to both arguments: compiling with DEC Ada on a fast AXP server. Compiling a module with a few errors can produce thousands of lines of fast scrolling terrifying disagnostics, so I hesitate to recompile too early... _____________________________________________ Gautier -- http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/