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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-16 14:52:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!west.cox.net!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0D0873.6080400@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic References: <3D0976BD.21FA7516@sympatico.ca> <3D0A1A15.C600F684@sympatico.ca> <3D0A3D89.50E5A3CA@despammed.com> <3d0aae5b_1@news.bluewin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 21:52:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024264364 68.12.51.201 (Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:52:44 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:52:44 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26090 Date: 2002-06-16T21:52:44+00:00 List-Id: Vinzent Hoefler wrote: >>The FACT is that Intel C++ beats gnat (and gcc), because much more effort >>has been invested. > > > Well. But Intel does not build Ada compilers, AFAIK. So do you compare > languages or compilers? Actually, they do build C highly-optimizing C compilers for their processors. I suspect they mostly do it so that they can show good numbers on benchmarks.