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fft1976 <fft1976@gmail.com> writes:
> > � Where'd you get that idea?
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gnat&box=1

Given that Ada is such a verbose language, the generally smaller
source sizes of the Ada programs suggests that they weren't optimized
very carefully.  I know that some C, Java, and functional language
users treat the shootouts fairly competitively and tune their code
carefully, but I don't know if the Ada users are the same way.  Ada
is unfortunately kind of a niche language these days.