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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing GNAT version 3.12p for Linux and Sparc Solaris
Date: 1999/10/23
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In article <slrn80uqtt.s6.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>,
  aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:36:57 +0200, Jean-Pierre Rosen
> <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> >It seems that ACT doesn't understand at all the current
trends in software.
> >It's been years that I didn't see a new version of a software
that wasn't
> >*slower* than the previous one..... ;-)
>
> Linux 2.0.x --> Linux 2.2.x
>
> (I haven't been around long enough to remember pre 2.0)
>
> It's quite common in the free software world...
>
> - Aidan (it's especially nice when it's your operating system
that
> does it)


Well to be fair, the new version of OS/2 is also dramatically
faster than the old version, particularly in the file system
department, which is quite impressive, as OS/2 runs circles
around other x86 systems (including Linux) when it comes to
the file system (GNAT for instance links in 7 seconds on my
quite slow notebook machine).


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