From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
Date: 1999-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7sqq0h$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37F0E771.7E394DE4@maths.unine.ch
In article <37F0E771.7E394DE4@maths.unine.ch>, Gautier wrote:
>> (...) over twice the size of the original.
>
>> So, since GNAT is junk, do you have another Ada compiler to recommend?
This statement is out of context.
>
>GNAT is not junk, since the relation between source code & .exe size
>is never linear (in any language)!
> Dewar
>> Starner
>> * C & C++ compilers will usually produce smaller and faster
>> code, albeit usually less than an order of magnitude.
>
>Well an order of magnitude would be a catastrophe, but in fact
>the statement is just false. If your Ada compiler produces
>junk code, get another one. In the case of GNAT, the compiler
>uses exactly the same code generator as the GNU C compiler or
>the G++ compiler, so for comparable source code, you get
>identical object code.
He basically said that if the Ada compiler did not produce code
as small as the C++ compiler, then it was junk, and that GNAT
in particular would produce the same code ("identical object
code") as G++. I was merely calling him on that.
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-27 0:00 Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses the middleman
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-27 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-28 0:00 ` the middleman
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` GNAT listing file default names (was: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-29 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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[not found] ` <7tf7uo$h2b$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
[not found] ` <37FBA978.A86762F1@mitre.org>
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7tf7uo <37FBA978.A86762F1@mitre.org>
[not found] ` <5OkO3.2$1e.659@typhoon.nyu.edu>
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` p.obry
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner [this message]
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Pragma (was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.) Preben Randhol
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-27 0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-29 0:00 ` the middleman
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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