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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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A fuller account can be found at

http://www.adahome.com/Ammo/Stories/Tartan-Realtime.html

by John Stare of Tartan Inc.


Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3afa4879$1@pull.gecm.com>, Martin Dowie says...
> >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"
>
> As I remember, Bevin Brett reported similar results with the DEC Ada
compiler.
> The problem with taking this at face value is that there's no way to tell
if
> this might be due to the effects of the language, more effort being spent
on
> optimizing Ada (at the time it presumbably had more military users than
the C
> compiler), utilizing lessons-learned from implementing the C compiler
earlier,
> or the superior brain-power of Bevin and everyone else involved with the
Ada
> compiler.
>
> Still, its a nice piece of evidence to have in one's pocket when those
"Ada is
> slow" threads pop up.
>
> ---
> T.E.D.    homepage   - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html
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