Re: What is faster Ada or C?

[wv9557@yahoo.com (Will)]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<1008889302.72075@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>...
> "Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com>
> wrote in message news:3C1E2D52.7499E107@adaworks.com...
> > With the exception of "inline" this is exactly what Ada does.   Therefore,
> > I would continue to call it separate compilation.
> 
> I am tempted to quote Abraham Lincoln: "If you call a tail a leg,
> it still doesn't make it a leg".
> 
> We are talking about inline! You claimed that C++ traded off the
> benefits of separate compilation against the benefits of inlined code.
> I hope I have demonstrated to you that C++ and Ada behave in
> exactly the same way with regard to this trade-off, except that Ada
> can manage to locate the body of the procedure "by itself" (that is,
> Ada programming systems know where to look for a piece of code
> once its name is given) and C++ requires the programmer to have
> placed the body in scope at the call site.

Mr Stroustrup said having 2 inline function with the same name but
defined different is illegal. However both g++ and vc++ are pretty
happy with
having 2 identical inline functions in different files. I 'd think its
not
mandatory for C++ compilers to detect this kind of conflicts. I wonder
how its
resolved in Ada. Search every single file to search for the inline
definition
and scream if two inline functions (of the same name ) are found? Or
be happy with the first inline found? Try guessing by looking at
comments? :)