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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-12 16:20:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!teaser.fr!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada performance (was No call for Ada ) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:19:19 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <88dc613b.0402121520.bf939f8@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1076631550 39057 80.67.180.195 (13 Feb 2004 00:19:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:19:10 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <88dc613b.0402121520.bf939f8@posting.google.com>; from MSG at 12 Feb 2004 15:20:04 -0800 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5502 Date: 2004-02-13T03:19:19+03:00 MSG wrote: > To keep it simple (I'm a mathematician actually), you seem to be > giving special importance on the execution _time_ and the > _arithmetic_ average, as opposed to, say, execution _speed_ (or the > _harmonic_ average). As you are a mathematician then it should be correct to ask you for a full definition of that _speed_ and/or accessible reference for it. (I never heard about a connection between execution speed and harmonic average, and I'm sure that I can understand proper mathematical definition at the level of MS in mathematics.) Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia