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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b16c9883f36bc904 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Nicolas Brunot Subject: Re: WinNT ADA compilers comparison Date: 2000/07/21 Message-ID: <3978041A.EB0F8FCE@cadwin.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 648993008 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3976C68A.12386D00@cadwin.com> <8l7fff$9kb$1@front1.grolier.fr> <3A92E737.E690906A@free.fr> X-Accept-Language: fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp1.proxad.net 964166651 212.27.44.81 (Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:04:11 MEST) Organization: Guest of ProXad - France MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:04:11 MEST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >From the user point of view, I think that reliability comes first (without it, you usually lose so much time that generated code performance is useless and means nothing) More than that, increase performance by 5 doesn't mean a lot. After a user action : he will find not acceptable the difference between 1s and 5s he will not care or even notice the difference between 1ms and 5ms (And I saw some developpers spending days for the second improvement, while not even care about the first ..., usually the user is not very happy) Even if this is the most important, that doesn't mean you don't have to care about development cost (one of the original purpose of ADA language, with reliability) As far as we are concerned, our code is far from being compile and linked just once ! During the development process, corrections, maintenance,..., and before the software can be provided to a customer, the code is compiled and linked thousands of times. I know few developpers linking just once a day. For us, the difference between 20s and 4mns for linking is more than important (we actually saw that difference between some compilers for same code and executable) Lionel Draghi a �crit : > Thierry Lelegard wrote: > > > ... > > I would think that the most important "time" point is > > the performance of the generated code. You compile > > once but you run your application many times... > A lot of software that where more compiled than used :-) > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Lionel Draghi http://www.Ada-France.org/