Re: Ada Compilers

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> wrote in message news:<3CE3B32D.9080309@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net>...
> No. For some applications, timewise performance is critical, and when 
> you have chosen the design and improved the algorthms used as much as 
> possible, you still want the fastest code possible. The quality of the 
> software is of course paramount always, but if runtime performance is 
> also an all-important criterion (but portability etc. also is, so you 
> can't use assembler), it will be important to you how good the generated 
> code is. It is for me, even if safety, correctness etc. is equally 
> important.


One thing I should mention here is that the Aonix compiler has *no*
compiler optimization options. Gnat and GCC have oodles of them. When
I asked Aonix about this, I was told that they do some optimization
(eg: peephole -type stuff) by default. But if you are into tweeking
optimization options on your compiler, I think you will be far happier
with Gnat.

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