RE: ada paper critic

["Beard, Frank [Contractor]" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Immanuel Scholz [mailto:news@kutzsche.net]
>
> > Tartan ran on several platforms, which I think included X86's.  I
> > think the may be owned by DDC-I now.
> 
> Have you any uptotime Comparation? What about the speed of the common 
> libraries? ("It doesn't matter how fast the compiler is, when 
> the only avaiable sort algorithm takes sqare-time" ;-)
> 

The question I was replying to wasn't asking about library speeds,
but speed of the generated executables.

No, I don't have any up-to-date comparisons, that was four projects
ago.  We ended up using a different compiler because, at the time,
Tartan didn't have all the functionality that we needed.

We're using Aonix ObjectAda on Windows NT for our current
project because it fits our needs (similarity to MS Visual tools,
decent price, decent GUI Builder, decent performance, etc).

It would be better to contact Tartan (or DDC-I, if that's who
owns them now) to see if they have any current benchmark data.

> Are there benches to graphical libraries? (Are there 
> graphical libraries?)

We wrote our own.  It was a small application to simulate the
type of plotting we would be doing.  We let the vendors compile
it and run it on each of their platforms with their Ada compilers,
with and without suppressing range checking.

Frank