From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Simplest Ada program Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 20:26:39 +0100 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87bmx4y900.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.56.221.87.mobile.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: franka.jacob-sparre.dk 1480015545 3476 109.56.221.87 (24 Nov 2016 19:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:25:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b38PgkvOtbad5OLSnbB7bDDbnWo= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32448 Date: 2016-11-24T20:26:39+01:00 List-Id: Niklas Holsti wrote: > Of course one could do that, but why? The "simplest Ada program" is > not useful for anything, so why is its start-up time of interest? Any > real program will have a different (probably larger) start-up time, > plus the time it takes to actually do something. I have a non-trivial program (it does something useful), which starts in 1.25e-6 seconds. > What do you _really_ want to know? That's a good question. Greetings, Jacob --