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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug in 'gnatmake' (Was: Range check for type 'Integer')
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On 06/17/2013 06:21 PM, Peter Brooks wrote:
> On Jun 17, 11:22 pm, Jeffrey Carter
> <spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> There's always the Ada (83) beats assembler paper:
>>
>> http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~adagroup/sigada-website/lawlis.html
>>
> Thank you for that - I'd not read it. It makes the point very well!

You might also be interested in "C vs Ada: arguing performance religion" by 
David Syiek of Tartan, /Ada Letters/, 1995 Dec.

"I was to run the well-known "Hennessy" benchmarks through the Tartan Ada C3x 
compiler and compare the results to the ones recendy [sic] computed for 
comparing Tartan C against Texas Instruments C in our sales literature.

"... The geometric means of the ratios shows that Tartan Ada (v5.1) is about 9% 
faster than Tartan C (v2.0) which is in turn about 28% faster than TIC (v4.5)."

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=216578.216583&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=340838929&CFTOKEN=38294996

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in
space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth."
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
61