dik@turing.UUCP (12/18/84)
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I need information about the Telesoft/Sun validated Ada compiler running
under Unix, but if you have the same information for the compiler under
ROS, please answer to.
1. Price. The representatives here (in the Netherlands) quote a price of
UKpound 5000 (about US$ 6500); which compares strange with prices for
other validated compilers (most about US$ 25000), and with the Telesoft
Vax subset compiler: UKpound 8000 (US$ 10000) in December 1983.
Is someone able to enlighten me?
2. Speed. How fast is it (compilation and execution). More specific, how
many full-time Ada programmers will comfortably served by such a compiler
on a Sun. Moreover, what do you expect if most of the programs will use
floating-point.
3. Buggy? Is the compiler buggy, and if so, how fast are errors corrected.
How is it with the Ada run-time system? How active is support from
Telesoft?
4. Tasking. How are tasks handled. First, are they executed in round-robin
fashion, or in a stacklike manner. Second, execute tasks until they
cannot go any further, or is there some form of time-slicing between tasks.
Answers by mail will be summarised on the net. Thanks in advance, I sign
by .signature.
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dik t. winter
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