Re: ada paper critic

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote in message news:<dale-7114C2.14352714062002@its-aw-news.its.rmit.edu.au>...
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> > But if you want real numbers that mean something, get the compilers you 
> > would use if you were to pick that language, and compare their output 
> > for the types of code you will be generating. Speed has way more to do 
> > with the effort your compiler writers put into optimization than with 
> > the language.
> 
> async abort is one counter example of this. The definition is such 
> that programs take a hit in efficiency (or so i have read in this 
> newsgroup).

You are missing the entire point. We could sit here all day and come
up with weird constructions for each language in question that go slow
on some compilers. What matters when you talk about speed is how
quickly the code generated by your compiler runs your kinds of
applications. If there's an unbelieveably slow feature in there, and
that feature isn't used in this particular person's code in a tight
loop somewhere, its not going to have any impact whatsoever on their
percieved performance.


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