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From: steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: Ada versus Java - Tasking
Date: 1997/01/17
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In article <01bc03ee$594dc520$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se>, 
ehsjony@ehs.ericsson.se says...
>
>
>I have written a small producer-consumer type of program
>both in Ada and Java. To my astonishment the Java code
>executes faster than the Ada code.
>
[snip]
>
>I would be interested to understand this better if you have
>any idea what is happening here. 
>
>/jonas

Have you tried setting the optimization level for GNAT to
-O3 as well as turning off all runtime checks?  I have seen
this make a significant difference in the speed of Ada (and
GNU C).

Steve Doiel