Re: naval systems

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Ray Blaak <blaak@telus.net> writes:

> If one means gcc to mean the suite of language specific compilers using a
> common code generation backend, then GNAT is a part of gcc.

GCC means "GNU Compiler Collection" now, the C compiler is GNU/C the Ada
compiler is GNU/Ada (aka GNAT).

> If one means gcc to mean the C/C++ compiler only, then of course it is not
> the same -- they compile different languages.

GCC should not be used for GNU/C compiler these days.

> At any rate, it should come as no surprise that an Ada compiler is slower
> than a C compiler -- an Ada compiler is doing far more work, plain and
> simple.

Indeed. I see nothing really surprising. Marin point was just that with today
computer speed (we all have a mainframe on our desk these days) it is not an
issue as important as 20 years ago.

Pascal.

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