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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-14 13:13:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0A4E5E.10B24892@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic References: <3D095F70.8090001@telepath.com> <4519e058.0206140700.24103e4d@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:13:18 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1024085617 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:13:37 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:13:37 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25977 Date: 2002-06-14T15:13:18-05:00 List-Id: > You are missing the entire point. We could sit here all day and come > up with weird constructions for each language in question that go slow > on some compilers. What matters when you talk about speed is how > quickly the code generated by your compiler runs your kinds of > applications. If there's an unbelieveably slow feature in there, .../ > [snip] ... then the solution is not automatically "use a different language." It might be "use a different compiler." I know that's what people have been saying; I just thought I'd make sure it was clear. :-) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau