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: 103376,278bf0771374076e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!newsfeed.icl.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!nntpserver.swip.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4544D551.20004@nowhere.com> From: Leif Holmgren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :( References: <1162052997.664967.135910@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:22:41 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.101.95.26 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@swip.net X-Trace: nntpserver.swip.net 1162138982 213.101.95.26 (Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:23:02 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:23:02 CEST Organization: A Customer of Tele2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7261 Date: 2006-10-29T17:22:41+01:00 List-Id: cl1 wrote: > I just got wind of this site. It would seem that ada, while not at > the very bottom, is one of the slowest languages in this benchmark > competition: So what? Has anyone ever tried to measure the important programming language speed aspects? What I mean is - Time to implement a complex algo by an average programmer, including bug-fixing. - Time for an average programmer to understand the code written for a complex algorithm? - Same stuff for complex control system. These are the issues that are important, not that the execution speed is of no importance, but for most of my software I don't care if it takes 1us or 1ms to open a hydraulic valve, but it sure has to happen.