From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid115aec,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Subject: Re: 10 rules for benchmarking (was Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)) From: Jim Rogers References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <395uqaF5rhu2mU1@individual.net> <112rs0bdr2aftdf@corp.supernews.com> <1inxxr988rxgg$.1w9dedak41k89.dlg@40tude.net> <112s1r0rf0o8nca@corp.supernews.com> <112sonip5v4dca6@corp.supernews.com> <112t3de6fu04f38@corp.supernews.com> <1110396477.596174.285520@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <112vb2t8eonuhed@corp.supernews.com> <1110422108.925127.54110@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <11329cb96h2p19f@corp.supernews.com> <113394jjvppao64@corp.supernews.com> <1133s3qnmqmbjfb@corp.supernews.com> <4232a9f7$0$26552$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <11369p5jrcc6835@corp.supernews.com> <1137falp86qhk89@corp.supernews.com> User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Message-ID: <6vYYd.380194$w62.57747@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:54:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.182.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1110725698 12.73.182.90 (Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:54:58 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:54:58 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9316 comp.realtime:1422 Date: 2005-03-13T14:54:58+00:00 List-Id: CTips wrote in news:1137falp86qhk89@corp.supernews.com: > This is meant to bring a performance issue into sharp focus. Each > element of this program was picked specifically for that reason. Try > writing the *equivalent* Ada program and *benchmark* it. See what the > performance will be. [snip] > This is not intended to be a real program; it is meant to illustrate > how much slower Ada can get than C. Try and write it as specified and > measure the resulting performance. >