From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: speed of generic code in Ada (vs Java)
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:54:55 +0200
Date: 2008-05-16T20:54:55+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsluulj4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2e1de55a-69e5-439e-addc-bde650b4c16a@i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com
jimmaureenrogers writes:
> On May 16, 11:31 am, "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Java only allows 'objects' as generics parameters. So, if you define a
>> generic class and use 'Integer' as a parameter, your code will be slow
>> because of the boxing - up to 5x compared to non-generic Int (see the
>> recent discussion in comp.lang.java.programmer - the 'numerics'
>> thread). Is the situation similar with generics in Ada, GNAT,
>> specifically?
>
> No.
To add to Jim's excellent answer: Ada got it right the first time,
back in 1980.
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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2008-05-16 17:31 speed of generic code in Ada (vs Java) jhc0033
2008-05-16 18:12 ` jimmaureenrogers
2008-05-16 18:54 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2008-05-17 1:50 ` jhc0033
2008-05-17 2:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-05-17 6:32 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-05-17 8:07 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-17 21:37 ` Gautier
2008-05-17 23:31 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-05-22 22:01 ` Florian Weimer
2008-05-21 8:12 ` Graham
2008-05-21 15:41 ` Robert A Duff
2008-05-22 0:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-05-23 22:55 ` Robert A Duff
2008-05-24 0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
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