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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
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"Gautier" <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> wrote in message
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: > : Wasn't it a Tartan Ada compiler for a TI DSP that produced smaller and
: > : faster code than hand-optimized assembler in the famous "Ada beats
: > : assembler" article?
:
: Ken Garlington:
:
: > Yes, and in theory you can still buy that Ada83 compiler from TI (which
: > bought that part of Tartan). However, I don't get a good feeling as to
the
: > level of support.
:
: I'm not a DSP guru, but there is at least a recent Ada95 for a TI chip:
:
: http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99032.htm

This is the Irvine (ICC) compiler that I mentioned in a previous post. The
website, again, is http://www.irvine.com