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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-14 07:59:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic Date: 14 Jun 2002 07:59:27 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0206140659.3c7987b7@posting.google.com> References: <3D095F70.8090001@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1024066768 18649 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2002 14:59:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jun 2002 14:59:28 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25941 Date: 2002-06-14T14:59:28+00:00 List-Id: Dale Stanbrough wrote in message news:... > 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. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - (temporarily down)