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 07:38:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.162.153.118!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CE3C43D.7030400@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:37:49 +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> <3CE3B32D.9080309@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> <%GOE8.39725$UV4.7654@rwcrnsc54> 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: 1021559890 dtext.news.tele.dk 47162 195.215.62.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24201 Date: 2002-05-16T16:37:49+02:00 List-Id: Steve Doiel wrote: > "David Rasmussen" wrote > in message news:3CE3B32D.9080309@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net... > [snip] > >>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. > > > I believe you will find that the performance of Ada matches or exceeds the > performance of C++ if you turn off runtime checks. Since C++ does not have > these checks there is no compartive disadvantage to turning off the checks. > There is however the advantage that you can turn on the checks during > testing. In many cases performance cost of runtime checks are low and they > are left enabled for delivered software. > Cool. That was what I was looking for. /David