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From: wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu (Aaron Denney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
    service attack.
Date: 6 Aug 2001 16:35:39 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 14:17:47 GMT, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> In article <xpTa7.3738$e%4.109789@news3.oke.nextra.no>, Tor Rustad says...
> >
> >Write a "Hello world!" program in Java, and name one single case for which
> >my C version will run slower. ;-)
> 
> That's a bogus comparison. You are thinking of Java's propensity to
> create interpreted code. That has nothing to do with Ada. (Although
> I suspect a Java expert could probably accomplish it with JINI and a
> natively-targeted Java compiler. Remember, "printf" actually has to
> stop and interpret the input string to look for replacements. There's
> plenty of room for a speed improvement there).

[reformatted]

fputs() does not scan for '%', only the NUL character.  If you wanted
to be slightly less portable write() is also an option.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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