From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Success: Ada versus C
Date: 1997/06/07
Date: 1997-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.865692615@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5n9l3m$f2e$3@mdnews.btv.ibm.com
Dale says
<< There is a "Purity" emphasis to the language that leaves you
(or at least me) fearing that it "CAN'T" be fast. For instance,
the whole discussion of copying IN and OUT the parameter list
leaves a taste of poor performance. Read further and you see
>>
What are you saying here? That call by reference is preferable from an
efficiency point of view to call by value return for scalars? Surely
not (most Fortran compilers also pass scalars by value).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-06-07 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-04 0:00 Success: Ada versus C RC
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Arthur Schwarz
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08 0:00 ` RC
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