"David Starner" <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> a �crit dans le message news: a5hp7k$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu...
> The person to whom I was responding claimed that most Ada compilers were
> as fast as, or faster than most C compilers. I merely pointed out that
> this wasn't true for a common Ada compiler and the associated C
> compiler, and expressed skepticism in the general case. I _never_ said
> anything about all Ada compilers or all C compilers.
>
Everybody is right here.
If you just compare compilation time, C is certainly faster.
If you consider the time between the first submission to the compiler and when your program is working correctly (which IMHO is what
really matters), then I take the bets that Ada is faster!

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