Re: Speeding up Ada procedure?

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>]

If your indexes are of a type that is restricted to the range of the array
bounds, the compiler need not do a check on those bounds when indexing the
array.  Some compilers take advantage of this.

Steve
(The Duck)

"Papandopulo" <papand0pul0@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have certain procedures dealing with
> large arrays which are potential performance
> bottlenecks. While they didn't cause
> performance problems yet I intuitively
> feel they will.
>
> Is it a way to remove runtime array
> bounds and other checks for particular
> procedure ?
>
> While Ada checks are excellent on
> control-type part of program where is
> a lot of logic and not much time spent
> it can become deadly if massive arrays
> of data are being processed.
>
> If the procedure just takes an array and
> produces an array I can be sure it's not
> faulty by testing it with different size
> arrays and than turning off runtime checks.
>
> That's my rationale.
>
> Thank you,
> George