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Subject: Re: Ada bench : count words
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> - special statute given to CR; personally I think all characters
> (control or not) should count to total
  Right.  I hadn't yet seen the original problem description.
> - reliance on Stream_Element representing one character; portable
> across all range of environments?
  I would argue that that's in effect assumed by the C and probably most
of the other programs, so it should be assumed for Ada.  (Similarly for
the input file being an unstructured byte stream.) If you truly want a
portable program, then the competition should be written to be portable
also.  I'll bet that would change some results.  ;)

>So we should submit yours, or mine inlined. It will put Ada right after
>the Cs w.r.t. speed. W.r.t. executable file size Ada is much bigger. On
  In my (minimal) trial, Dmitry A. Kazakov's
(Message-ID: <1j5jfikipztuc.jx5n2zhbg2np$.dlg@40tude.net>)
appears still faster.  I don't understand why, unless Gnat.OS.Lib is
significantly faster than Gnat's Ada.Streams.Read, which seems unlikely.