From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards
Date: 1996/04/24
Date: 1996-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <830369569.19364@assen.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 317CB1C1.431F@lmtas.lmco.com
Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
>John McCabe wrote:
>>
>> You seem to be defending a "make it fast, THEN make it work"
>> philosophy here (which I completely disagree with) and confusing
>> quality with run-time performance.
>Except that, in the choices given, you could either have a performance
>improvement (choice #1), or you could pass a test which did _not_ add
>to _any_ measure of compiler quality. The second choice involved a test
>with no value added to the user (this was a precondition of the second
>choice).
I was looking at it from the point of view that the test was for a
language feature, and that language feature could be used at some time
by someone - possibly me.
>I think, given those two options, you would prefer #1, right? Certainly,
>if choice #2 involved a useful test, then I might agree with your response.
>However, the ground rule for #2 was that it was a useless test. So,
>failing test #2 should _not_ translate into a bug in the application code,
>and so the effects you described later should not occur.
Given the options of:
1) Improving the performance of something I have that works
and
2) Fixing something I want that doesn't work
Then I'd choose 2).
I'm loathe to believe that any of the ACVC tests are truly useless
(although I have to admit I haven't looked at them so far), but in a
general case, where the particular test mentioned was _truly_ useless,
then I would choose the performance improvement.
Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
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Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-25 0:00 Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards Kenneth Mays
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-12 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-15 0:00 ` Tiring Arguments Around (not about) Two Questions Ken Garlington
1996-04-15 0:00 ` Gary McKee
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1996-04-18 0:00 ` Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards John McCabe
1996-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-22 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-24 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1996-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-16 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-22 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Cordes MJ
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-08 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-05-08 0:00 ` TARTAN and TI Tom Robinson
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
[not found] ` <Dr46LG.2FF@world.std.com>
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards John McCabe
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Mike Cordes
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Mike Cordes
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-03-31 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Applet Magic works great, sort of Vince Del Vecchio
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards steved
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Applet Magic works great, sort of Bob Crispen
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards Ken Garlington
1996-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-04-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-06 0:00 ` Ada validation is virtually worthless Raj Thomas
1996-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1996-04-07 0:00 ` Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards John McCabe
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-04-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Cordes MJ
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-04-19 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-04-25 0:00 ` Tiring Arguments Around (not about) Two Questions [VERY LONG] Laurent Guerby
1996-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
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1996-04-01 0:00 Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards Simon Johnston
1996-04-24 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-25 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-29 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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