Re: What is faster Ada or C?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"Mark Lundquist" <mlundquist2@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<S3nO7.2430$KY6.1181@rwcrnsc53>...
> You also might consider using gnatprep to conditionalize 
> these pragmas so
> that you only turn them on when doing the "production" 
> build of the program.

I find that a bit of a junky approach. I think you will
do better simply to have different build options using
-gnatp for selected units if necessary for performance.
This is particularly convenient if you are using the
new project management facilities in GNAT Pro.

P.S. Everyone surely agrees that it is a good idea to have
checks on while testing, but it is not so clear that it is
always better to have checks on for deployment. Remember 
that an unhandled exception can be a much worse disease
than an incorrect non-critical result (the Ariane folks
know that well).