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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Charles container library usage examples
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:52:02 +0200
Date: 2005-09-11T12:51:03+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43240c16$0$27555$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zmqlgyoo.fsf@rr.trudgett>

David Trudgett wrote:

> Slow execution is also somewhat relative. Ada is slower than C, for
> instance, unless you disable run-time checks (an Ada strength), and
> even then Ada may still have extra features/overhead that C doesn't
> have.

There is some overhead in C programs, too, when they have explicit
checking code to compensate for what C doesn't have. This code isn't
necessarily visible to the C compiler as checking code, I 'd say,
whereas checks implied by the Ada language are visible to the compiler
in this sense.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-11 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-03  2:38 Charles container library usage examples David Trudgett
2005-09-03  5:15 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-03  9:45   ` Simon Wright
2005-09-04  6:25     ` David Trudgett
2005-09-05 11:28       ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-04  0:26   ` David Trudgett
2005-09-04  9:49     ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-06  3:01       ` David Trudgett
2005-09-06 16:22         ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-07  0:15         ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-04 17:19     ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-06  3:01       ` David Trudgett
2005-09-06  5:08         ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-06  6:46           ` David Trudgett
2005-09-06  7:26             ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-24  0:05               ` Randy Brukardt
2005-09-09 14:57         ` James Alan Farrell
2005-09-10  7:38           ` David Trudgett
2005-09-10 14:55             ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-10 15:26               ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-10 17:58                 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-09-12  0:24               ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-11 10:52             ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2005-09-11 21:14               ` David Trudgett
2005-09-13 23:41                 ` Björn Persson
2005-09-14  6:39                   ` David Trudgett
2005-09-12  0:21             ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-12  0:57               ` David Trudgett
2005-09-12  1:01                 ` Robert A Duff
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