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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ada paper critic
Date: 14 Jun 2002 06:58:09 -0600
Date: 2002-06-14T06:58:09-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yDQOeSu3jWKl@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-7114C2.14352714062002@its-aw-news.its.rmit.edu.au

In article <dale-7114C2.14352714062002@its-aw-news.its.rmit.edu.au>, Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
>> But if you want real numbers that mean something, get the compilers you 
>> would use if you were to pick that language, and compare their output 
>> for the types of code you will be generating. Speed has way more to do 
>> with the effort your compiler writers put into optimization than with 
>> the language.
> 
> async abort is one counter example of this. The definition is such 
> that programs take a hit in efficiency (or so i have read in this 
> newsgroup).

> ...and doesn't the fact that the only way to attach information
> to an exception is via a string, requiring conversions  to/from
> the appropriate format just to find out what -really- went wrong?

The spirit of exception processing is that it is supposed to be done
on an infrequent basis.  Performing giant sort in Cobol is more costly
than a simple multiplication in the same language.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-14 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-14  0:49 ada paper critic Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14  1:28 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14  1:43   ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  4:53     ` David Marceau
2002-06-14  6:40       ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  6:49       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-14 12:18       ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 16:30         ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 17:34           ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 19:01             ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 19:43               ` Baugereau
2002-06-15  3:02                 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15  9:49                   ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 15:53                     ` Dan Andreatta
2002-06-17 18:20                       ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 20:56                     ` Michael Bode
2002-06-17 21:18                       ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-16 21:52                   ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:02     ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14  3:14   ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14  4:35     ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  8:05       ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 12:31         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 15:08         ` Darren New
2002-06-17  0:17           ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 19:05         ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16  3:34           ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16  3:32         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  8:25       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:19         ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 14:51           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 15:09             ` Darren New
2002-06-16 22:49               ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-16 15:07                 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17  4:06                   ` Darren New
2002-06-17  4:52                     ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17  9:45                       ` David Marceau
2002-06-17 15:42                       ` Darren New
2002-06-17  3:59                 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 22:19                   ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:58       ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-06-14 22:16         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15  1:22           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15  0:51             ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 11:49               ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 21:45             ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 14:59       ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16  3:27         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:18           ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 22:38           ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 15:00       ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:13         ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 18:52       ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-15 22:03         ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16  1:58           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16  3:19             ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:20         ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-17  1:57           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17  2:16           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 15:25   ` John R. Strohm
2002-06-15  4:05     ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-17 13:32       ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-15  4:06     ` The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes Lyle McKennot
2002-06-15 13:45       ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 13:55         ` Ed Falis
2002-06-15 15:03           ` Pat Rogers
2002-06-15 18:42         ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16 22:25         ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-15 18:01       ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-16  1:53         ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17 20:06           ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-17 20:54             ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 14:56               ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-18 17:08                 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-16  3:15         ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-16  3:51           ` Pat Rogers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-14 14:31 ada paper critic Alderson, Paul A.
2002-06-14 15:16 ` Darren New
2002-06-14 15:58 ` Andrew Maizels
2002-06-14 17:00   ` chris.danx
2002-06-14 18:44     ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 20:26       ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 22:06         ` Ehud Lamm
2002-06-14 22:01           ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 22:38             ` sk
2002-06-15 11:28               ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 18:10                 ` sk
2002-06-15 14:30               ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 17:36                 ` sk
2002-06-16  3:08                 ` Gautier
2002-06-16  0:05               ` AG
2002-06-16 21:05                 ` Gautier
2002-06-14 23:10             ` tmoran
2002-06-15 14:19         ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 23:04           ` Darren New
2002-06-15 23:38             ` Darren New
2002-06-17 10:56           ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-17 19:56             ` Brian Rogoff
2002-06-17 20:47               ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 18:10                 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-06-18 18:51                   ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 19:08                     ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 20:47                       ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-19  5:28                 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-18 14:01               ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 20:58 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 21:30   ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15  1:24     ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15  3:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15 21:54 ` AG
2002-06-14 19:42 Gautier no_direct_reply_please
2002-06-15 15:08 ` Simon Wright
2002-06-15 22:52 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16  0:38   ` AG
2002-06-17 14:15     ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 13:52       ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 15:41         ` Darren New
2002-06-18 18:04         ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-19  1:04           ` Rod Haper
2002-06-16 22:19   ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16 23:02     ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-17  7:07       ` Kevin Cline
2002-06-18 20:54         ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 22:15           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-14 20:06 Gautier no_direct_reply_please
2002-06-14 20:48 ` Baugereau
2002-06-15 14:38   ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:36 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-14 21:34 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15  4:14   ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-14 22:08 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-14 22:18 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-15  1:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 22:28 Gautier direct_replies_not_read
2002-06-15 14:43 ` Ted Dennison
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