From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Some questions on a library design
Date: 1997/06/21
Date: 1997-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bc7c41$a3f397a0$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EBxrtu.7v6@world.std.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote in article
<EBxrtu.7v6@world.std.com>...
[...]
> One nice thing about Ada, is that you can choose to use dispatching or
> not, on a call-by-call basis.
In theory, but not often in practice. And in no case is the inefficiency of
the extra tag removed, nor of the dynamic tag checking (and sometimes
dynamic access checking).
Nick.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-16 0:00 Some questions on a library design Brian Rogoff
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1997-06-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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