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

From: Dmitry A. Kazakov (mailbox_at_dmitry-kazakov.de)
Date: 02/10/04

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    Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:13:24 +0100

    On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:08:16 +0000 (UTC), "Martin Dowie"
    <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote:

    >"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
    >news:vjah20tahj48fftkpeghp29ugnojfdd4r4@4ax.com...
    >> >3. performance is highly important
    >>
    >> GNAT is a front end of GNU C...
    >
    >Not quite...
    >...they share a back-end - GNAT does NOT translate Ada source into C as an
    >intermediate.

    Yes of course, GNU C is just a name of a set of compilers. Important
    is that the back-end is same, so it is unlikely for GNAT to be slower
    than GNU C. Theoretically Ada as a language should allow better
    optimization than C. 

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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