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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Peter Hermann Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada? Date: 1999/02/23 Message-ID: <7atrtr$13t$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447420526 References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7afttr$7v3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aganu$qsc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <36CC11A1.C7A71642@hercii.mar.lmco.com> <7ahkn0$kab$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <36CC6AC0.25DBE56D@erols.com> <7aikfp$nhq$3@plug.news.pipex.net> <36CD44CF.A61DAE96@erols.com> <7ajrpu$jpq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (OSF1/V2.0 (alpha)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > Nick proposed that "the high level language is > theoretically compltely immaterial [to the optimization > issue]", and that of course is completely wrong. This is well outlined in an article of Tartan's magazine "On Target" vol2 #4 Spring 1995 pages 6-8 by David Syiek: "C versus Ada: Arguing Performance Religion" The article includes interesting benchmarks ;-) I like to know whether this text could be reached electronically? -- Peter Hermann Tel+49-711-685-3611 Fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)