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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <OQix7.333$hz1.163695682@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>, Pat Rogers
says...
>
>> Personally I don't think I'd trust it again in real-time without a
>> careful examination of the source code for all the calls I plan on using
>(which
>> can get quite hairy, considering we are talking about multilevel generic
>> instantiations, with other generics as paramters).
>
>For real-time apps that's good advice for any reusable library.

True, and the fact that the sources are available and compiled along with
everything else makes this much easier than it is with many other facilities.

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