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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b73eb137e4ed638 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-17 08:08:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Compilers Date: 17 May 2002 08:08:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0205170708.2c84d8e4@posting.google.com> References: <3CE2AF22.2060208@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> <3CE39722.60208@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> <3CE3B32D.9080309@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021648114 24872 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2002 15:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 May 2002 15:08:34 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24274 Date: 2002-05-17T15:08:34+00:00 List-Id: David Rasmussen 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. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html