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From: john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: comparing gnat/Ada95 and g77
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:14:37 GMT
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:44:10 +0100, Reinert Korsnes
<reinert.korsnes@chello.no> wrote:

>Thanks all for response.
>
>For the Ada95 program I used:
>
> gnatmake test1.adb -cargs -O3 -ffast-math 
>
>and for the Fortran version I used:
>
>  f77 -c -O3 -ffast-math test1.f (and f77 -o test1 test1.o)
>
>Ada:    11.8 s
>
>Fortran: 2.7 s

That seems like an incredible difference, especially as I would have
thought the IO is making up a significant part of this.