Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language)

From: James Rogers (jimmaureenrogers_at_att.net)
Date: 02/11/04


Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:30:17 GMT

msg1825@yahoo.com (MSG) wrote in
news:54759e7e.0402101819.95cec1d@posting.google.com:

> Can you write (*) a matrix multiplication routine in Ada, compile it
> with GNAT and measure the number CPU cycles per FLOP, compare to a
> similar routine in C?
> The shootout seems to put GNAT closer to Perl and Java than to C/C++.

The shootout numbers I saw put vc at .07, gcc at 0.10 and GNAT at .20.
Java was 0.73 and Perl was 34.31.

I do not see how .2 is closer to .7 or 34 than it is to .1.

Your mathematics seems seriously flawed.

Please explain your reasoning.

Jim Rogers



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