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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3f0365b3a22c7556 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: Freejack Subject: Re: Heap vs Stack allocation Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:44:27 -0400 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <434c2709$0$21298$626a54ce@news.free.fr> <434CA2A2.2040405@spam.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: wyngmibas02-l10-a1331.wyngmi.tds.net X-Trace: newspeer2.tds.net 1129166391 69.129.50.63 (12 Oct 2005 20:19:51 CST) Organization: TDS.NET Internet Services www.tds.net Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.tds.net!216.170.153.144.MISMATCH!newspeer2.tds.net!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5570 Date: 2005-10-13T19:44:27-04:00 List-Id: 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