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: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 05:20:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is ada dead? Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:06:08 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9ic7da$f8t$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <3B5F53D1@MailAndNews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 994681067 15645 195.25.228.57 (9 Jul 2001 12:17:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:17:47 +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.google.com comp.lang.ada:9666 Date: 2001-07-09T14:06:08+02:00 List-Id: "Vinzent Hoefler" a �crit dans le message news: 3B5F53D1@MailAndNews.com... > Oops, almost forgot: I don't do professional developing in ADA. ADA is just > a > hobby for me (at the moment at least, perhaps this might change in the near > future). I'm still doing ancient, but f* fast assembly code and to tell you > about some success with that "consider it to be dead, too"-language, I got a > 50-60 _times_ (5,000%) speed improvement last week compared to some old > code. > Well... Recently, I improved some code from one of my clients 50 times too - by replacing convoluted Ada code by better Ada code. Not to diminish the value of what you are doing - just another example that you can get tremendous speed-ups by doing the right thing, irrespective of language. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr