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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: GPL 2008 is out... and it's faster!
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:12:45 +0200
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Anh Vo wrote:

> On Jun 5, 6:33 am, "Alex R. Mosteo" <devn...@mailinator.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm sure many of you are aware that the GPL 2008 version of GNAT was
>> released yesterday. It includes several goodies, but the first thing I
>> noticed when
> 
> Where did you download it from? from The Libre Site
> https://libre2.adacore.com/ I notice GNAT GPL Edition 2008 Coming Soon! sign
> a couple days ago. I downloaded all previous releases of GNAT from here.
> However, GNAT GPL 2008 is not available yet.

Ah, uhm. I got it via the GAP program. I assumed that, since GAP and GPL are
now synchronized, it would be the same thing. I guess it will be generally
available at any moment.

> 
>> compiling part of my codebase is that it felt faster.
>>
>> And sure enough, here is a preliminary test, compiling my particular
>> do-it-all library:
>>
>> $ time gprbuild -Pagpl
>>
>> GNAT GPL 2007
>> real    4m35.149s
>> user    4m1.219s
>> sys     0m12.529
>>
>> GNAT GPL 2008
>> real    3m55.710s
>> user    3m22.225s
>> sys     0m12.713s
>>
>> I guess there's been a change in the gcc backend leading to this nice
>> speed-up. Incidentally, I had to change just one line of code to get this
>> (rather large) library to compile (some ambiguity that wasn't perceived as
>> such in the 2007 version).
>>
>> And now, to test if interfaces are more useable than before...
> 
> It is nice to know that GNAT has evolved and improved. Thanks to
> AdaCore for providing this great service to Ada Community.
> 
> AV