jon@anwar.UUCP (John Sissler) (05/14/85)
hi,
does anyone have either the data or ability to produce
meaningful benchmarks evaluating ada vs C. i think such a
comparison would be of vast interest. specifically, we are interested
in VADS vs pcc on a VAX.
thanks,
john sissler - HHB-Softron
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ps. much thanks to all those who provided me with ada compiler
info.brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III) (05/20/85)
> in VADS vs pcc on a VAX.
I would suggest VADS vs tcc (Tartan's C compiler) on a VAX.jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) (05/22/85)
In article <175@anwar.UUCP> jon@anwar.UUCP (John Sissler) writes: > does anyone have either the data or ability to produce >meaningful benchmarks evaluating ada vs C. To be fair, turn those checks off when benchmarking Ada against anything, except "safe" dialects of Pascal, etc. When comparing a Porche to a Sherman Tank, are you looking for the fastest and lightest, or the most bomb-proof! The term "meaningful" as used above, will obviously be weighted by what you will be measuring. Ada was designed to be used for applications where exceptions are intolerable. (You don't want to launch a nuclear weapon because some array overflowed!) The constraint and allocation checking will cause Ada to measure slower and larger than languages like C that let you do as you damn well please. -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::
west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West) (05/27/85)
In article <781@mako.UUCP> jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) writes: >In article <175@anwar.UUCP> jon@anwar.UUCP (John Sissler) writes: >> does anyone have either the data or ability to produce >>meaningful benchmarks evaluating ada vs C. > >To be fair, turn those checks off when benchmarking Ada against anything, >except "safe" dialects of Pascal, etc. When comparing a Porche to a Sherman >Tank, are you looking for the fastest and lightest, or the most bomb-proof! >The term "meaningful" as used above, will obviously be weighted by what you >will be measuring. And yet simple tests can be meaningful if one keeps such issues in mind. For example, if you were designing a screen editor, one might well want the best security possible (don't want to lose anyone's data)... until one discover that this comes at the cost of making even the simplest commands take seconds to complete. Or that the running code won't fit within an externally-imposed memory limit. In short, direct comparisons of single aspects like execution speed or code-size or "security" are not likely to be useful in choosing a language/system. But you may be able to establish that one language/system or another simply cannot meet one of your basic requirements, no matter how great its advantages in other aspects. -- Larry West Institute for Cognitive Science (USA+619-)452-6220 UC San Diego (mailcode C-015) [x6220] ARPA: <west@nprdc.ARPA> La Jolla, CA 92093 U.S.A. UUCP: {ucbvax,sdcrdcf,decvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcsla!west OR ulysses!sdcsla!west