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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:29:37 +0200
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Vincent LAFAGE schrieb:

> Given that complex number are not hard-embedded in Ada, they should pay
> the abstraction price, but they keep the price low.

An example of Ada's complex type (a record) being less efficient
than something else is seen in the following Mandelbrot programs;
the difference between the two Ada entries is in part caused by
one of them using type Complex,

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=mandelbrot

I guess that (some) computations involving object of type Complex will be
faster when compilers generate SSE instructions for complex arithmetic.