Re: Ada PIWG

[rracine@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Roger Racine)]

The PIWG (Performance Issues Working Group) has a very useful set of
tests for benchmarking Ada compilers.  Ted Holden, you are wasting an
awful lot of time and money sending these misstatements around the
country.  You do not have to like Ada.  You may have to use it if you
do work on new DoD projects.  But what purpose does it serve to answer
a request for information on a serious subject with a lot of rhetoric
without any facts to back up your statements?

Back to the PIWG.  To attempt to compare compilers, operating systems,
databases, and other software systems, people have been creating 
benchmarks for years (Whetstones, Dhrystones, etc.), no matter what
Ted Holden says.  Byte Magazine has a set of tests for comparing
computer systems.  PIWG created a set for testing Ada compilers and
runtime environments.

It is not easy to create standard tests for interrupts u knows
the hardware.  So the last time I used the PIWG, it did not support
testing that.  However, they have been working on it, and it could be
available.  

The correct person to contact is Dan Roy (301) 464-6800.  He chairs the
working group.

Roger Racine