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Subject: Re: Simplest Ada program
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On 22/11/2016 6:20 AM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>> Could you compile your simplest Ada programs in other platforms and run
>> loaders to time each executable?
>
> Of course one could do that, but why? The "simplest Ada program" is not
> useful for anything, so why is its start-up time of interest? Any real
> program will have a different (probably larger) start-up time, plus the
> time it takes to actually do something.

It should give you the minimum amount of time to run an Ada program in a 
one-user operating system?

> What do you _really_ want to know?

How do you benchmark real-time Ada programs? ;)