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Subject: Re: compiler benchmark comparisons (was: naval systems)
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In article <3C7E3C33.17E60A7D@despammed.com>, Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> writes:

> With large C collections, to avoid unnecessary
> recompilations, one generally runs a tool to 
> generate Makefiles (or painstakingly does it by
> hand).  With Ada, part of this job is done by
> writing with clauses in the code, and the rest
> of this job is part of the compile.

When the tool that generates the makefiles is the previous run of
the C compiler itself, the difference from Ada seems quite small.