From: ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)
Subject: Re: GNAT & GCC performace (bad news)
Date: 1999/12/10
Date: 1999-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ev_remove_this_ans-1012990948080001@192.168.1.254> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82pro2$3i0$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <82pro2$3i0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Still, I do want to emphasize that I think it is very valuable
> to have this capability (Ada to C translation) because it allows
> Ada 95 to be used on a wider variety of targets. Note that of
> course the preferred implementation of the Intermetrics front
> end is to wed it to an Ada specific code generator as is done in
> the Aonix and Green Hills products, but it is certainly
> attractive to have an alternative path on processors for which
> no such specialized Ada code generator is available! Yes, there
> are some losses from this approach, but the Intermetrics
> implementation shows that these can be minimized in practice to
> the point where the resulting compiler is quite practical for
> production use.
Absolutely right!
Moreover, this approach provides developers on a new target (which
already has a C compiler) immediate ability to write and test code.
If as the project develops it appears that better code efficiency
is required, they can then go the (more expensive) route of
commissioning a new target for GCC. But, in the mean time, they do
have a useful compiler for testing.
Art Evans
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-02 0:00 GNAT & GCC performace (bad news) Harald Schmidt
1999-12-02 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-12-02 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
1999-12-02 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ada2001
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr [this message]
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Mats Weber
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