From: Freejack <freejack@nowhere.net>
Subject: Re: Heap vs Stack allocation
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:44:27 -0400
Date: 2005-10-13T19:44:27-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2005.10.13.23.44.23.670599@nowhere.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 434CA2A2.2040405@spam.com
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:44:10 +0000, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> There seems to be an existence proof for this: the Tartan Ada-83 compilers had
> excellent optimizers. It was a Tartan compiler that resulted in the "Ada Beats
> Assembler" article; the compiler produced smaller and faster code than
> hand-optimized assembler from a team of experts. There was also an interesting
> article on Tartan's benchmarks that they used to sell their C compilers. The Ada
> version was faster than the C version. The article listed the Ada features that
> allowed this. True arrays was one such feature.
>
> I'm speaking from memory; I don't have the articles around. They were in /Ada
> Letters/ in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
Is Tartan still in existence? Are the current crop of Ada vendors making
Ada specific optimizers? I'd be very interested in getting my hands on one.
Freejack
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-11 20:56 Heap vs Stack allocation Lionel Draghi
2005-10-11 21:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-10-12 5:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-13 23:44 ` Freejack [this message]
2005-10-13 2:47 ` Steve
2005-10-13 5:30 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-12 1:38 ` Jon Harrop
2005-10-12 12:35 ` Florian Weimer
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