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

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Reinert:

> 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 ?

I doubt very much that changes in hardware in general will
result in changes in the relative execution speed of Ada and
C programs.

On the other hand, I find it likely that similar investments
in improving compilers will give a larger pay-off for Ada
than for C.

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

I have a vague memory of reading something about a processor
developed by Eriksson (the launch systems division, I
think), which implemented task switching in a very Ada
friendly way.

Jacob
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