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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng,comp.programming
Subject: Re: 10 rules for benchmarking (was Re: Teaching new tricks to an
 old dog (C++ -->Ada))
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:18:02 +0100
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CTips a �crit :
> 
> Since it appears that several people out here are making some very basic 
> mistakes when they report benchmark numbers, I thought I'd write a small 
> note on how to do benchmarking.
> 
[lots of good stuff deleted]

You are absolutely right, but there is one thing that this benchmark 
*proves*:

Blindly claiming that C is faster than Ada is not supported by hard figures.

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