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From: Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/07
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The original message in this thread did not say "reading a file a
character at a time is slow", but rather that doing it in Ada was an
order of magnitude slower than doing it in C, on the same OS and
hardware.  Since there is no other way strictly in Ada to read a file
which is too large for memory and whose size is a prime number, this is
unfortunate.  And saying Ada 95 can do it by calling a C function, is
less than a strong endorsement of Ada.