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Reply To: | W. Wesley Groleau x4923 |
Date: | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:14:40 -0500 |
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> > I'll second Vic on this. My experience with converting from VADS to
> > GNAT has been that the ONLY noticible cost is the restesting. Even on
> > fairly large software suites, the time to get recompiled and up and running
> > is less than it takes to talk about it.
Third.
I have spent less then 45 hours porting 17,000 files from Apex to GNAT. Only
two (maybe three) significant* compiler bugs found in that time, and these
affected less than 30 files. One of these bugs bit about fifteen files,
but for all of them, a slight restructuring of the code was enough to
compile.
A good portion of those hours was spent repeating things because I didn't
have the disk space to do it right the first time. :-)
* "significant" meaning the bug took more than a couple of days for ACT to
fix it.
Now it didn't take 45 hours to talk about that, but we'll tolerate a little
exaggeration. :-)
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