Re: What is faster Ada or C?

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

pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) writes:

> In article <pdxu1vb67fq.fsf@sirppi.helsinki.fi>,
>         aaro@iki.fi (Aaro Koskinen) writes:
> ...
> > (Also, I would imagine that with Ada's strong typing, the compiler can
> > do better optimizations than an average C compiler. However, I don't
> > have any evidence for this...)
> 
> I've always heard and felt this, too. However I wonder if theory and
> practice unfortunately differ here, due to the overwhelming popularity
> of C and its ilk.
> 
> Take gnat as an example. It's a front-end for gcc, which is itself
> developed primarily in C. So granting that strong typing allows better
> optimization, is the back-end smart enough to use the extra information?

Well GNAT backend is GCC backend heavily patched!

Pascal.

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