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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Flass Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:43:06 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbb2246$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4bbb5386$0$56422$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <7plPn.6395$z%6.5719@edtnps83> <4c0ded8f$0$6759$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="V8SydqRRXuF8ysuwvpMn7w"; logging-data="436"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19sTm2db0PgZdNQup5sFF7h" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: <4c0ded8f$0$6759$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:KJ8yr75xRh+70X0mdLY2YLbNgeA= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11470 comp.lang.fortran:24188 comp.lang.pl1:1426 Date: 2010-06-08T06:43:06-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > On 6/8/10 8:27 AM, James J. Weinkam wrote: > >> Nevertheless, it remains true that the assembly language programmer who >> knows what he is about has complete control over the binary code >> generated, although I would venture to say that few, if any, assembly >> language programmers think of what they are doing in those terms most of >> the time. > > Would this control include control over pipelines, parallelism, > and possibly translation of assembly instructions to microcode? > Probably more so than with a(n) HLL. For example, if you're concerned about it, you can organize instructions to maximize parallelism.