mdj wrote:
Paul Schlyter wrote:So this bounds checking can not be turned off in Ada, for efficiency ?It's compiler dependent - but the Ada compilers I've used allow pretty much all runtime checking to be disabled. This is reasonable - after a degree of testing I guess... I've personally never written anything in Ada that ran slowly enough to bother with it.
Turning off error/assertion checking after development and test and before distributing software for use is like wearing life vests during training, but taking them off before going to sea (to paraphrase Dijkstra). -michael Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."