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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,90c3c79963d78580 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-11 09:45:02 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!ldn-newsfeed.speedport.net!newsfeed.speedport.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Numerical Computation and Ada95 Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:28:07 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9dh4ol$s9g$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <9dc4sh$ru5$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr> <9deus2$8t6$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 989599317 28976 195.25.228.57 (11 May 2001 16:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:41:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7402 Date: 2001-05-11T18:28:07+02:00 List-Id: "N&J" a �crit dans le message news: 9deus2$8t6$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr... > Hi all, > First of all I would like to thank everyone for his/her help. From what you > said I understand that it is pointless to compare languages in their timing > efficiency. An other point I'm surprised nobody mentionned: Provided your compiler supports Annex F, you get guarantees about the numerical accuracies of computations, *including* the accuracy of the math library. AFAIK, Fortran tells you nothing about the accuracy of sin, log, etc. So if you are concerned not only by fast results, but also by accurate results, Ada is a big winner. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr