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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: David Starner Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:01:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.71.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1088208093 12.72.71.211 (Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:01:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:01:33 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1903 Date: 2004-06-26T00:01:33+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:20:31 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > Nick Roberts wrote: > >> > (Or is someone suggesting that all Ada checks should be left in >> > when developing an OS?) >> >> [...] Only in those (very few) places where speed is critical should >> they be omitted. > > Are you suggesting that you would prefer a buggy/insecure operating > system to a secure but slower one? I'm not sure I would take a noticeable speed hit versus Linux for improvement of its security or crashes (which I encounter once every two weeks or so). It just wouldn't make enough difference for me. If I were running something besides a purely personal computer, I might analyze things differently of course.