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"Freejack" <freejack@nowhere.net> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:44:10 +0000, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>
>> There seems to be an existence proof for this: the Tartan Ada-83 
>> compilers had
>> excellent optimizers. It was a Tartan compiler that resulted in the "Ada 
>> Beats
>> Assembler" article; the compiler produced smaller and faster code than
>> hand-optimized assembler from a team of experts. There was also an 
>> interesting
>> article on Tartan's benchmarks that they used to sell their C compilers. 
>> The Ada
>> version was faster than the C version. The article listed the Ada 
>> features that
>> allowed this. True arrays was one such feature.
>>
>> I'm speaking from memory; I don't have the articles around. They were in 
>> /Ada
>> Letters/ in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
>
> Is Tartan still in existence? Are the current crop of Ada vendors making
> Ada specific optimizers? I'd be very interested in getting my hands on 
> one.
>
> Freejack
>

It appears that DDC-I acquired the tartan compilers:

http://www.ddci.com/news_tads2000.shtml

Steve
(The Duck)