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Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: good news about code size under Verdix Ada
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Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 02:04:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 02:04:01 1987
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
Keywords: generics tasking dependencies object\ size
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Old Dominion has received its latest update of Verdix Ada, and the
result is a gold star for Verdix, and a general good news for the
Ada community, about the progress of compiler technology.

First, a couple of annoying bugs were fixed.  For a professor colleage of
mine, an inability to freely mix tasks and generics in some research
matrix manipulation code was cleared up.  For me, some spurious dependency
errors in linking compiled code, in my graph theory research support packages,
that used to require lobotomizing the system's memory of previous compilations
of the code, to compile without errors, has gone away.

Now the big news.  My professor friend reports, that with no change in
source code or execution results, the size of his executable code module
decreased from 180K bytes to 80K bytes!  Progress indeed.

The moral, if there is one, is that, with the maturing of compiler technology,
Ada seems to have a chance to compete in size and speed with the older
languages.

Taking a look at my .signature, a disclaimer would be silly, don't you think?

Kent.

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