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Subject: Re: 10 rules for benchmarking (was Re: Teaching new tricks to an
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In article <1137falp86qhk89@corp.supernews.com>, CTips <ctips@bestweb.net> writes:

> - I want an array of "handles"; that's why I picked a set of pointers.

> This is not intended to be a real program; it is meant to illustrate how 
> much slower Ada can get than C. Try and write it as specified and 
> measure the resulting performance.

Will you then commit to write a program in C whose specifications
are tilted toward Ada ?