From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,80435549e92d4e0c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:52:02 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050817) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Charles container library usage examples References: <87mzmssqbq.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4321a2e0_3@newsfeed.slurp.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <43240c16$0$27555$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Sep 2005 12:51:03 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: ddcc2376.newsread4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=MoJ;jYFCflbUWaeE\nHN0l:ejgIfPPlddjW\KbG]kaMhFYk:AnJB[Cm?kaliLGR5R`hP3YJKgE\jl[o[^OAb[VZa X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4576 Date: 2005-09-11T12:51:03+02:00 List-Id: 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.