From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,539c04254abf1b37 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-27 01:45:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: naval systems Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:38:19 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <3C74E519.3F5349C4@baesystems.com> <20020221205157.05542.00000012@mb-cm.news.cs.com> <3C763746.CC8B2965@baesystems.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1014803076 26876 195.25.228.57 (27 Feb 2002 09:44:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:44:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20507 Date: 2002-02-27T10:38:19+01:00 List-Id: "David Starner" 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! -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr