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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,934b86ff587954f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Anh Vo Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GPL 2008 is out... and it's faster! Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <6aq877F38sismU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.225.226.220 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1212681011 12534 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2008 15:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.225.226.220; posting-account=Qh2kiQoAAADpCLlhT_KTYoGO8dU3n4I6 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:581 Date: 2008-06-05T08:50:10-07:00 List-Id: On Jun 5, 6:33 am, "Alex R. Mosteo" wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure many of you are aware that the GPL 2008 version of GNAT was released > yesterday. It includes several goodies, but the first thing I noticed when Where did you download it from? from The Libre Site https://libre2.adacore.com/ I notice GNAT GPL Edition 2008 Coming Soon! sign a couple days ago. I downloaded all previous releases of GNAT from here. However, GNAT GPL 2008 is not available yet. > compiling part of my codebase is that it felt faster. > > And sure enough, here is a preliminary test, compiling my particular do-it-all > library: > > $ time gprbuild -Pagpl > > GNAT GPL 2007 > real 4m35.149s > user 4m1.219s > sys 0m12.529 > > GNAT GPL 2008 > real 3m55.710s > user 3m22.225s > sys 0m12.713s > > I guess there's been a change in the gcc backend leading to this nice speed-up. > Incidentally, I had to change just one line of code to get this (rather large) > library to compile (some ambiguity that wasn't perceived as such in the 2007 > version). > > And now, to test if interfaces are more useable than before... It is nice to know that GNAT has evolved and improved. Thanks to AdaCore for providing this great service to Ada Community. AV