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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :(
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:28:42 +0000
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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!