Re: Ada Compilers

[David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002 13:25:22 +0200, David Rasmussen wrote:
> 
>>Preben Randhol wrote:
>>
>>>What do you mean how good is code generation?
>>>
>>
>>I mean how good is the generated machine code on various CPU's (x86 for 
>>instance) with typical Ada compilers as compared with typical C++ compilers?
>>
> 
> 
> Why? The important question is how good is the quality of the software
> produced with Ada compared to C++.
> 
> Preben

No. For some applications, timewise performance is critical, and when 
you have chosen the design and improved the algorthms used as much as 
possible, you still want the fastest code possible. The quality of the 
software is of course paramount always, but if runtime performance is 
also an all-important criterion (but portability etc. also is, so you 
can't use assembler), it will be important to you how good the generated 
code is. It is for me, even if safety, correctness etc. is equally 
important.

/David