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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: What is faster Ada or C?
Date: 5 Dec 2001 11:12:15 -0600
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In article <9ulg5q$cj0$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>, Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>  
> : Here is the GNAT 5 output: "-S -gnatp"
> : 
> :        .text
> 	...
> : L2:
> :        cmpl    $1000, -8(%ebp)
> :        jle     L5
> :        jmp     L3
> : L5:
> :        leal    -4(%ebp), %eax
> :        incl    (%eax)
> :        leal    -8(%ebp), %eax
> :        incl    (%eax)
> :        jmp     L2
> : L3:
> 	...
> 
> So now even assembler output is more reader friendly.
> Must be Ada influence :-) :-)

Perhaps the program was optimized for speed or size rather than
for reader friendliness.  I don't know that instruction set,
but there are various issues in some instruction sets regarding
branch prediction and register usage that mean the most optimized
code is likely to be the least obvious.