Re: What is faster Ada or C?

[john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)]

On 01 Dec 2001 03:43:53 +0200, aaro@iki.fi (Aaro Koskinen) wrote:

>Depends heavily on the compiler, really.

And the application.

>(Also, I would imagine that with Ada's strong typing, the compiler can
>do better optimizations than an average C compiler. However, I don't
>have any evidence for this...)

It's been mentioned before on a couple of occasions, but Tartan (as
was) wrote a paper identifying why their Ada compiler produced faster
code than assembler. As far as I can remember, many of the points
raised related to optimisation and, in particular, how the use of
package specifications allowed them to make valid assumptions that had
an positive impact on the optimisations they could use. C compilers
were, as far as I remember, also mentioned.