Re: Ada Compilers

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Thu, 16 May 2002 15:25:01 +0200, David Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> No. For some applications, timewise performance is critical, and when 
> you have chosen the design and improved the algorthms used as much as 
> possible, you still want the fastest code possible. The quality of the 
> software is of course paramount always, but if runtime performance is 
> also an all-important criterion (but portability etc. also is, so you 
> can't use assembler), it will be important to you how good the generated 
> code is. It is for me, even if safety, correctness etc. is equally 
> important.

I agree with you. The reason I commented your question was that a lot of
people asking this question, but are not reflected as you seem to be.
People believe that the speed of the application is the most important
factor. This is generally not the case at all. At least when making
user applications. The user will loose far more time from program
crashes than that a program uses 2ms more to open a dialog.

Preben
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