From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEx1bmRpbg==?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem implementing Iterators Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:20:42 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <9ceb847e-d064-47e7-aa11-7707b63d4308@googlegroups.com> <21e0e529-a516-4e22-a6a5-68b212f22577@googlegroups.com> <6d947a7f-7494-4dd7-96d9-0dad83589413@googlegroups.com> <016b982c-d376-4db4-bb7c-37561e7903d2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="691595b33500fda591d2780113176564"; logging-data="27806"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19vO8o9oa/Wd7AVbaoIiEbG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:qkQzCjSXk9n6cOp09MWOIUm5ZaI= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24774 Date: 2015-01-28T13:20:42+01:00 List-Id: On 2015-01-27 21:58, Jeffrey Carter wrote: > On 01/27/2015 11:43 AM, Björn Lundin wrote: > Some time ago (late 1980s or early 1990s) there was an article in /Ada Letters/ > about why the Tartan Ada compilers were able to produce faster code for Ada > versions of their C benchmarks than their C compilers. The fact that all C > variables are aliased, while all Ada-83 variables are not, was one of the factors. Very interesting, thanks -- Björn