Re: Government Policy on Ada Acquisitions

[kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)]

In article <34pq9h$b87@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM (Ted Dennison) writes:
>However, since GNAT is still unfinished, wouldn't it be MORE unfair to compare
>its optimized code to the code produced by a commercial compiler that has
>fully matured optimization capabilities? Perhaps someone associted with the
>GNAT project could correct me on this point if I'm wrong. I'm sure you are
>absolutely correct as far as comparing two COMMERCIAL compilers.

Well, I don't know what's "fair" here, but I strongly agree with
Bevin's point: it's not a very meaningful comparison.  At the code
generation level, few compiler writers bother to worry about the
quality of unoptimized code.  GNAT uses the GCC backend, where -O
certainly does something.