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On 05/11/2018 02:20 PM, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
> "There's probably a 1.3x typical slowdown from C to Ada, but I'd consider that to be worth it for Ada's higher safety."
> 
> Indeed it would be worth it, but there's no slowdown at all in most reports I've seen from here and there.

Correct C is usually slower than correct Ada that does the same thing, because 
an Ada compiler can optimize away many checks that will be left in the C because 
it's too much effort to manually prove that they will never fail.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade."
Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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