Re: Numerical Computation and Ada95

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>]

taken from:

http://www.adaic.org/docs/present/whyada/tsld013.htm

"For duplicate functions written in C and Ada for a C30
 DSP using the tartan compiler, comparisions indicated
 that the Ada code was faster than the C code"

N&J <nikogian@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9dc4sh$ru5$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr...
> Hi all,
> I have posed the question whether Ada95 is suitable for numerical
> programming at the newsgroup of numerical analysis.
> I asked if Ada95 is better that Fortran90/95 and C++ for writing programs
> for numerical computation and the reply was that the Ada language
> specification requires extensive
> run-time checks which slows down the programs. I thought it would be
better
> to ask your opinion too. I have noticed that there are too few numerical
> programs in Ada95 for numerical computation is the above fact the real
cause
> for this? Finally would you suggest someone to use Ada95 for numerical
code?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>