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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why
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Chad R. Meiners wrote:

> 
> Implementation always matters; no one said that it did not matter.  Modern
> Ada compilers are pretty good at optimizations so I would expect that there
> should not be much of a difference between the run times of comparable C and
> Ada programs.
> 

I would expect that GNU Chess is compiled with GNU gcc. GNAT uses the 
same technology. They are probably using the same optimizer since both 
are run through the same 'back-end'.

If the programs are 'comparable' there might not be any differences in 
run time!