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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Simplest Ada program
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:20:19 +0200
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On 16-11-21 16:58 , Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 21/11/2016 10:41 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>> Loader is a part of OS. E.g. ld under Linux.
>>
>
> Could you compile your simplest Ada programs in other platforms and run
> loaders to time each executable?

Of course one could do that, but why? The "simplest Ada program" is not 
useful for anything, so why is its start-up time of interest? Any real 
program will have a different (probably larger) start-up time, plus the 
time it takes to actually do something.

What do you _really_ want to know?

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