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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,def01441310021b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-20 01:16:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news.iks-jena.de!lutz From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will (abstract) Ada code improve over time ? Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:15:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: IKS GmbH Jena Message-ID: References: <3B557455.B3ADFEE@ffi.no> <9j75em$lmp$9@news.tpi.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: taranis.iks-jena.de X-Trace: branwen.iks-jena.de 995616952 15629 217.17.192.37 (20 Jul 2001 08:15:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@iks-jena.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:15:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10312 Date: 2001-07-20T08:15:52+00:00 List-Id: * Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: >In article , Lutz Donnerhacke wrote: >>>I assume the runtime efficiency of programs is a question for much special >>>niches. One example could be operative systems. Linux ? >> >> Linus tried to convert the kernel to C++ in order to get faster development >> cycles due to stronger typing but failed miserably due to compiler errors >> and language ambiguity. > >That's not true. >A few 0.x kernels were compiled using c++ compiler, but they >were pure c code, and c++ were used only to catch more errors >on compile-time. It was equivalent of using more -W options. >Linus stopped using c++ compiler, as there was a performance lose, >and advantages weren't that big. Thanx for clarification. I do not remember such things very well.