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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada 200X
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:38:25 +0200
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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 :=3D 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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