From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :(
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:28:42 +0000
Date: 2006-10-29T17:28:42+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k62jm3p1.fsf@grendel.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4544D551.20004@nowhere.com
Leif Holmgren <nobody@nowhere.com> writes:
> cl1 wrote:
>> I just got wind of this site. It would seem that ada, while not at
>> the very bottom, is one of the slowest languages in this benchmark
>> competition:
>
> So what?
>
> Has anyone ever tried to measure the important programming language
> speed aspects? What I mean is
> - Time to implement a complex algo by an average programmer, including
> bug-fixing.
> - Time for an average programmer to understand the code written for a
> complex algorithm?
> - Same stuff for complex control system.
>
> These are the issues that are important, not that the execution
> speed is of no importance, but for most of my software I don't care
> if it takes 1us or 1ms to open a hydraulic valve, but it sure has to
> happen.
I agree, though my current project is the sort in which it _must not_
take more than 1 ms!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-29 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 16:29 ada is getting spanked :( cl1
2006-10-28 17:45 ` Martin Krischik
2006-10-28 20:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-29 1:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-29 2:13 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-29 4:48 ` Isaac Gouy
2006-10-30 1:01 ` Isaac Gouy
2006-10-29 2:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-29 2:30 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-29 2:33 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-29 17:19 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-29 17:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-29 8:54 ` Martin Krischik
2006-10-29 13:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-30 0:46 ` Isaac Gouy
2006-10-29 16:27 ` Björn Persson
2006-10-29 20:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-29 23:50 ` Björn Persson
2006-10-31 11:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-31 13:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-31 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-31 18:01 ` Martin Krischik
2006-10-29 4:58 ` Isaac Gouy
2006-10-29 8:46 ` Martin Krischik
2006-10-30 0:17 ` Isaac Gouy
2006-10-30 18:26 ` jtg
2006-10-30 21:50 ` george
2006-10-31 4:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-31 6:28 ` Gautier
2006-10-31 6:47 ` Martin Krischik
2006-11-02 18:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-02 19:37 ` Gautier
2006-11-03 5:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-03 12:06 ` Martin Krischik
2006-11-03 19:59 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-12 22:26 ` Shootout / pidigits [Re: ada is getting spanked :(] Gautier
2006-10-28 22:45 ` ada is getting spanked :( Larry Kilgallen
2006-10-29 16:22 ` Leif Holmgren
2006-10-29 17:28 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2006-10-29 19:21 ` jtg
2006-10-29 21:33 ` Leif Holmgren
2006-10-31 11:04 ` Harald Korneliussen
2006-11-01 11:28 ` jtg
2006-11-01 14:31 ` Harald Korneliussen
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