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From: Willem <willem@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng,comp.programming
Subject: Re: 10 rules for benchmarking (was Re: Teaching new tricks to an old
 dog (C++ -->Ada))
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:33:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Jean-Pierre wrote:
) Willem a �crit :
)> Jean-Pierre wrote:
)> ) You are absolutely right, but there is one thing that this benchmark 
)> ) *proves*:
)> )
)> ) Blindly claiming that C is faster than Ada is not supported by hard figures.
)> 
)> Given that the only ADA code I saw in this thread was a linear search,
)> which could easily have been a binary one, there's no way you can back up
)> that claim.
)> 
) Did you read my (carfully phrased) sentence? I am just claiming that 
) *some* tests have exhibited comparable behaviour, and therefore that you 
) cannot claim *blindly* that C is faster. If you want to support that 
) position, you need to provide strong, measured, evidence.

In that case your sentence makes no sense, because you are saying that
'claiming blindly' means 'claiming without strong, measured, evidence'.
'hard figures' are 'strong, measured evidence', so therefore your
sentence can be rephrased as follows:

Claiming that C is faster than Ada without strong measured evidence
is not supported by strong measured evidence.

Which, as I said before, makes no sense.  It's a tautology at best.


SaSW, Willem
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