From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/04
Date: 1997-03-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mheaney-ya023680000403972015450001@news.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 331bf6ce.2832564@news.logica.co.uk
In article <331bf6ce.2832564@news.logica.co.uk>, garriga@logica.com
(Stephen Garriga) wrote:
> _IF_ you are doing the CRC on a file (as I was), I would advise you
>to consider performance. I found (exactly the same algorithm)
>implemented in C took an order of magnitude seconds less to execute
>than the Ada equivalent.
Once again it is necessary to clarify things with respect to languages and
efficiency.
First, performance is a characteristic of _implementations_, not of
_languages_. So let's not be making bold intimations that Ada the language
is somehow slower than C.
Second, one of the things many Ada programmers don't realize is that strong
typing can _increase_ the efficiency because it gives the compiler more
semantic information on which to base optimizations. (For example, using a
subtype for an array index value can turn off checks that would otherwise
be necessary to detect index constraint errors when dereferencing an
array.)
So show me this algorithm that "is exactly the same" and I'll tell you why
it runs more slowly.
matt
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1997-03-02 0:00 CRC in Ada? Dr. John B. Matthews
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-03 0:00 ` David Brown
1997-03-04 0:00 ` David L Brown
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Stephen Garriga
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Tom Moran
[not found] ` <1997Mar7.202252.1@eisner>
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Graham Hughes
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Graham Hughes
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` David Brown
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Mark & Zurima McKinney
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Graham Hughes
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-07 0:00 ` David Brown
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Stephen Garriga
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Stephen Garriga
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Stephen Garriga
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Michael & Amy Hartsough
1997-03-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-16 0:00 ` Michael & Amy Hartsough
1997-03-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Michael & Amy Hartsough
1997-03-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-20 0:00 ` Michael & Amy Hartsough
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Sequential IO on OpenVMS (was: CRC in Ada?) Ken Garlington
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-22 0:00 ` CRC in Ada? Mark & Zurima McKinney
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Portable Code (was: CRC in Ada?) Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-24 0:00 ` CRC in Ada? Robert A Duff
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-04-01 0:00 ` David Emery
1997-03-07 0:00 ` John Apa
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-03-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2013-11-14 17:39 ` david
2013-11-14 18:55 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-11-14 19:35 ` tmoran
2013-11-14 20:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-11-14 20:40 ` John B. Matthews
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1997-03-13 0:00 tmoran
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Joakim Olsson
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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