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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message news:3B57EFCB.C5EC2F12@nbi.dk...
> Reinert:
>
> > Yes, there are more interesting questions, but is it some important and
> > stable
> > Ada code out there and that we may expect will run faster over time (on new
> > hardware)
> > as compared to if it was made in C ?
>
> I doubt very much that changes in hardware in general will
> result in changes in the relative execution speed of Ada and
> C programs.

[snip]

One major advantage of Ada is built-in threading (i.e. Ada tasks).
As hardware gets more multiprocessing capability, Ada programs written using
tasking will naturally get a performance boost.   Of course, multi-threaded
C programs would get a boost too, but because it's so much easier
for a programmer to write multi-threaded programs in Ada, they will be more
likely to do use multi-threading in Ada than in C.


Corey Ashford
Rational Software Corp. (not speaking for them in any way whatsoever)