Comparison of the execution times of ada, c and java

This paper presents a comparison of the execution times in Ada, C and Java. Two Benchmarks were used for this comparison, Whetstone [CW76] and Dhrystone [Wei88]. These benchmarks were compiled with Ada-Multi [GHS03] and Ada-GNAT [GNA01], with two Java Real-Time Virtual Ma-chines Perc VM [New02] and Jamaica VM [SW01], with the gcc C-compiler as a reference program and interpreted with the Sun VM [LY99]. Further-more, different operating system have been used, like VxWorks as a real-time operating system, Windows, Linux and Unix Sun Solaris.