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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.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-16 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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