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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5a97e6705e234408 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-25 13:51:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Expected bytes per sloc (semicolons) performance References: <3BB0B47D.305A7D5E@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:51:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 1001451083 24.7.82.199 (Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:51:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:51:23 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13363 Date: 2001-09-25T20:51:23+00:00 List-Id: > > But those implementations that share generic code would show the opposite > > effect. > > How many such exist? I've been using RR Software's Janus for many years and it does shared generics. I'm told that's because its original target platform was a 640K PC so code size mattered. Just looking at a few programs on my disk, I see: half dozen small DOS *.com programs in Janus Ada 83 lie close to: com file bytes = 56 * source_lines + 19500 modest Ada95 program 3180 sloc->192000 exe, 60 bytes/sloc more substantial Ada 95 program 13088 sloc->537600 exe, 41 bytes/sloc