From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Subject: Re: ada vs C benchmarks
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 12:36:27 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Wed May 22 12:36:27 1985
Message-ID: <781@mako.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 175@anwar.UUCP
In article <175@anwar.UUCP> jon@anwar.UUCP (John Sissler) writes:
> does anyone have either the data or ability to produce
>meaningful benchmarks evaluating ada vs C.
To be fair, turn those checks off when benchmarking Ada against anything,
except "safe" dialects of Pascal, etc. When comparing a Porche to a Sherman
Tank, are you looking for the fastest and lightest, or the most bomb-proof!
The term "meaningful" as used above, will obviously be weighted by what you
will be measuring.
Ada was designed to be used for applications where exceptions are intolerable.
(You don't want to launch a nuclear weapon because some array overflowed!)
The constraint and allocation checking will cause Ada to measure slower and
larger than languages like C that let you do as you damn well please.
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1985-05-14 14:21 ada vs C benchmarks John Sissler
1985-05-20 17:41 ` Eugene D. Brooks III
1985-05-22 16:36 ` Jan Steinman [this message]
1985-05-27 8:08 ` Larry West
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