From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 200X
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:38:25 +0200
Date: 2003-06-03T10:38:25+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bbhmsf$9d8bl$4@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3EDC0BE6.42300129@somewhere.nil
Gautier Write-only wrote:
>And838N@netscape.net wrote:
>
>> I've heard professors say they don't like Ada because it's slow and does all those
>> "bounds" checking "things".
>
>They are misinformed: Ada is slow when the bounds checking is ON.
Well, I beg to differ. In many areas it makes not much difference
because bounds checking is usually quite cheap, because in correct
programs the jumps are never taken. :-)
In some particular heavy calculation where bounds checking takes a
quite large amount of the actual code (consider a simple loop with
just "i := i + 1" in it) you might indeed feel a difference, but
usually I don't.
The main problem I see is that it might make a program substantially
larger.
Vinzent.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-01 21:36 Ada 200X And838N
2003-06-02 2:22 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2003-06-02 4:20 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 11:22 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 14:09 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 14:23 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 14:59 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 15:04 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:18 ` Bill Findlay
2003-06-02 15:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:41 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 14:23 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 14:31 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:06 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 21:05 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 22:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-03 4:07 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-03 7:52 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2003-06-03 9:09 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-03 14:54 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-04 7:38 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-05 7:20 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 5:36 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-06-02 8:02 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-02 10:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-06-03 2:29 ` Steve
2003-06-03 2:45 ` Gautier Write-only
2003-06-03 8:38 ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
2003-06-03 11:48 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 12:14 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-06-03 12:35 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-07 21:16 ` Craig Carey
2003-06-08 11:14 ` Martin Dowie
2003-06-09 14:07 ` Craig Carey
2003-06-13 14:20 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-06-13 14:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-06-03 17:24 ` Robert A Duff
2003-06-03 17:45 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 17:48 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 18:05 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-04 10:36 ` Preben Randhol
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-31 1:51 David Botton
2004-10-31 7:33 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-31 18:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-26 16:17 Ada 200x Adrian Hoe
2002-12-27 19:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-27 20:55 ` Robert A Duff
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