From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: What is faster Ada or C?
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:43:10 GMT
Date: 2001-12-03T14:43:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cMO7.46841$xS6.76274@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: S3nO7.2430$KY6.1181@rwcrnsc53
In article <S3nO7.2430$KY6.1181@rwcrnsc53>, Mark Lundquist says...
>
>The run-time checks are valuable, and a habit of compiling everything with
>checks suppressed may result in a lot of needless time spent debugging.
>
>I'd recommend using pragma Suppress in the source code (or as a
>configuration pragma), in only the performance-intensive parts of your
>program.
I'd go further than that: You should only supress checks when analysis
(including actual measurement) shows that you need the extra speed that you get
by doing this. Don't leave C, only to reproduce its buffer overflow exploits in
Ada.
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-01 1:22 What is faster Ada or C? Heiko Hamann
2001-12-01 1:43 ` Aaro Koskinen
2001-12-03 8:49 ` John McCabe
2001-12-04 23:00 ` Florian Weimer
2001-12-05 15:53 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-06 0:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-10 15:18 ` Dale Pontius
2001-12-10 17:44 ` Pascal Obry
2001-12-01 3:44 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-01 20:09 ` Heiko Hamann
2001-12-02 4:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-02 10:44 ` Pascal Obry
2001-12-04 11:43 ` john mann
2001-12-04 14:25 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-05 9:46 ` John McCabe
2001-12-02 10:07 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-03 14:43 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-12-09 12:31 ` Robert Dewar
2001-12-01 9:26 ` Gisle Sælensminde
2001-12-01 10:13 ` Pascal Obry
2001-12-02 17:49 ` Bertrand Augereau
2001-12-03 14:39 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-03 16:19 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-03 19:04 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-03 20:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-03 21:17 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-03 21:20 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-04 23:02 ` Florian Weimer
2001-12-05 16:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-06 23:33 ` Florian Weimer
2001-12-04 2:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-04 6:54 ` Steven Deller
2001-12-04 22:05 ` Bertrand Augereau
2001-12-06 4:25 ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-07 20:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-09 19:32 ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-11 16:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-14 0:36 ` Will
2001-12-19 22:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-17 17:37 ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-20 23:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-23 4:12 ` Will
2001-12-23 6:41 ` James Rogers
2001-12-04 22:37 ` Pascal Obry
2001-12-05 15:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-05 17:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-12-07 13:21 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-12-07 15:16 ` Aaro Koskinen
2001-12-07 16:50 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-07 17:03 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-12-07 17:26 ` Aaro Koskinen
2001-12-07 18:32 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-07 20:23 ` Wes Groleau
2001-12-07 17:11 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 18:47 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-07 16:16 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-07 17:04 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-12-07 16:26 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-07 17:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-12-09 12:27 ` Robert Dewar
2001-12-10 16:51 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-12-10 17:33 ` Jeff Creem
2001-12-07 16:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-07 17:02 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-07 17:10 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-12-07 18:12 ` Pascal Obry
2001-12-07 18:50 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-07 18:54 ` Pascal Obry
2001-12-07 20:40 ` Preben Randhol
2001-12-07 22:01 ` Pascal Obry
2001-12-07 18:19 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-10 9:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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