From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)
Subject: Re: Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ?
Date: 19 Jul 2001 17:29:58 GMT
Date: 2001-07-19T17:29:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9j75em$lmp$9@news.tpi.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn9latb9.46.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de
In article <slrn9latb9.46.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>>I assume the runtime efficiency of programs is a question for much special
>>niches. One example could be operative systems. Linux ?
>
> Linus tried to convert the kernel to C++ in order to get faster development
> cycles due to stronger typing but failed miserably due to compiler errors
> and language ambiguity.
That's not true.
A few 0.x kernels were compiled using c++ compiler, but they
were pure c code, and c++ were used only to catch more errors
on compile-time. It was equivalent of using more -W options.
Linus stopped using c++ compiler, as there was a performance lose,
and advantages weren't that big.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-18 11:34 Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ? Reinert Korsnes
2001-07-18 11:42 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-07-19 17:29 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski [this message]
2001-07-20 8:15 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-08-03 17:38 ` Dale Pontius
2001-08-03 21:32 ` Florian Weimer
2001-07-18 13:33 ` Preben Randhol
2001-07-19 17:31 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-19 17:46 ` Ed Falis
2001-07-20 7:35 ` Reinert Korsnes
2001-07-20 8:46 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-07-26 0:52 ` Corey Ashford
2001-07-29 4:34 ` Tomasz Wegrzanowski
2001-07-29 5:47 ` AG
2001-07-29 5:56 ` tmoran
2001-07-29 8:20 ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-29 12:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-29 14:08 ` Florian Weimer
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