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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b73eb137e4ed638 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-16 06:25:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CE3B32D.9080309@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:25:01 +0200 From: David Rasmussen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020412 Debian/0.9.9-6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Compilers References: <3CE2AF22.2060208@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> <3CE39722.60208@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: TDC Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.215.62.2 X-Trace: 1021555521 dtext.news.tele.dk 47162 195.215.62.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24186 Date: 2002-05-16T15:25:01+02:00 List-Id: 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