From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Subject: Re: ADA on the super
Date: 1998/04/19
Date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6hddrn$fqc@news1.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6ha2lu$5cb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
stuebi@mail.uni-mainz.de writes:
> It at least shares the back end of GCC, which isn't famous for its
> optimization.
But gcc doesn't do that badly, either. I can name quite a few existing
commercial compilers, generally ones not done by hardware vendors,
which have worse optimization than gcc. gcc even beats Digital's Alpha
Fortran compiler on one of the SPEC95 benchmarks (but loses by about
30% on the rest...) Not bad for a compiler which only recently started
to be tuned against that benchmark suite.
Does Ada have any kind of benchmark suite, preferably composed of real
applications?
> Believe me there is no such thing like a free ADA compiler.
> Free software is worth every cent you pay for it.
If you say so. I'd rather evaluate all software on a case-by-case
basis, and understand its strength and weaknesses. Huge
generalizations are usually wrong.
-- g
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-17 0:00 ADA on the super Alex Stuebinger
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-18 0:00 ` stuebi
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Ada on the super (packed arrays) Michael F Brenner
1998-04-22 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-04-21 0:00 ` ADA on the super Robert Dewar
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Toon Moene
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Toon Moene
1998-04-20 0:00 ` K. Mathias
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Acronyms was: " Eugene Miya
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Greg Lindahl [this message]
[not found] <6hibr7$kf5$1@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Ada " Richard Toy
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
1998-04-22 0:00 ` Alex Stuebinger
1998-04-22 0:00 ` John M. Mills
1998-04-22 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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