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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada 200X
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:14:43 +0000 (UTC)
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* Preben Randhol wrote:
> Well I wouldn't say Ada is slow. I think C would be just as slow if it
> *had* bounds checking.

No. C has to do much more checks, because the compiler can not deduce when
the checks are not necessary.