From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Re: Ada to C/C++ translator needed
Date: 1996/09/30
Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52oorc$hid@solutions.solon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52o1ve$gra@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
In article <52o1ve$gra@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>If an expensive optimising C compiler (developed for a specific machine,
>with *intimate* knowledge of that machine) can't beat a free Ada compiler
>which runs on a wide range of machines, when given idiomatic code for a
>fairly straightfoward program, what would _you_ conclude?
That the expensive optimising C compiler was a ripoff. :)
(However, if you're discussing SparcWorks C, you've failed to establish
that it's a C compiler. A C compiler *MUST* diagnose the line
static int i = 1 ? 1 : (++j);
as a constraint violation, but at least the version we have doesn't, even
in "maximally conforming ANSI mode". Clearly, it is not a C compiler.)
>*Every* time I have bothered to write the same thing in Ada and C, I have
>obtained the same results on this machine. There isn't anything about the
>SPARC that should tip the balance in favour of Ada. Quite the reverse, in
>fact.
Didn't you know? It's an acronym for "Sun's Project Ada Revenge Chip", and
was designed to make things run 10 times faster in Ada than they would have
otherwise. :)
-s
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-25 0:00 Ada to C/C++ translator needed Emmanuel Champommier
1996-09-25 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-02 0:00 ` B|rje Norden
1996-10-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Erik Magnuson
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ian Ward
[not found] ` <52feul$os2@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach [this message]
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-02 0:00 Simon Johnston
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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