Re: Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ?

[Reinert Korsnes <Reinert.Korsnes@ffi.no>]

Preben Randhol wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:34:45 +0200, Reinert Korsnes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since Ada code is (supposed to be) on a higher abstraction level
> > than for example C, does this mean that we can expect
> > new compilers and hardware over time (10 years ?) will make
> > a program made in Ada more efficient/faster than a similar C program ?
>
> As I "see" the future the following keywords will be more important than
> a slight improvement in the speed of a running program:
>
>    1. Development Cost
>    2. Maintainability Cost
>    3. Reliability
>
> And as I see it, Ada 95 is better equipped to satisfy in all these areas
> than C.

Yes, there are more interesting questions, but is it some important and
stable
Ada code out there and that we may expect will run faster over time (on new
hardware)
as compared to if it was made in C ?  (and similar: is it some stable C
code
out there and that would run better in the future is it was made in proper
Ada ?).

Do we see some significant new hardware coming and where old stable Ada
code
will have some advantage ?  Parallel processors ?  Distributed processing ?

Processing where time/clock control comes in ?

reinert

>
>
> --
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>  not an app programming language.�  - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer)
>
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