From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 200X
Date: 03 Jun 2003 13:24:02 -0400
Date: 2003-06-03T13:24:02-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccvfvnjcr1.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnbdp2ou.1lk.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no
Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:
> 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 wouldn't say Ada is slow. I think C would be just as slow if it
> *had* bounds checking.
Slower, actually, because C can't tell the difference between "pointer
to int" and "pointer to array of int", and would therefore have to store
extra information with every pointer, in general.
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-03 17:24 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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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