Re: Required Metrics

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@earthlink.net> writes:

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> 
>      Again, from a user's point of view, all this nit-picking is
> irrelevant.  A user who needs, say, a compiler which never takes more
> than 1 millisecond for a clock interrupt is not going to be satisfied
> with some random document.  He or she is going to write those
> requirements in the purchasing contract.  Any such requirements in the
> contract will not specify that this or that feature be documented, but
> the actual required performance.

Or is simply going to test it, and throw away those compilers that do
not meet his requirement.
Or implement the feature himself.
Or use another language, since the need for implementing it yourself
really removes much of the reason for using Ada in the first place.

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