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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/21
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In article <83na60$8lo$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <38566835.B4A2D48@rdel.co.uk>,
>   Chris Powell <chris.powell@rrds.co.uk> wrote:
> > And the compiler is so slow!
>
> There is no reason for an Ada compiler to be slow. If your
> compiler is slow, again you chose the wrong one. Sounds like
> you need to be quite a bit more careful in your procurement
> decisions for Ada compilers!

Well, in truth there is one minor reason. Ada compilers systems
typically do a lot of the work of "make" as well as of a traditional
compiler. So if you compare an Ada compiler's speed with that of a C
compiler without taking into account the speed of make and the time it
takes you to create all those make rules (or run your makefile maker),
then it isn't really a good comparison.

For our moderately large (1300 file) system, the upfront library
registration with Tucker's favorite front end takes a quite noticable
amount of time on a clean system (well over a minute). But then again,
all our source is on networked ClearCase drives, which significantly
slows down every file access.

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T.E.D.


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