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From: Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: performance of Generic and strings
Date: 1999/08/16
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depends what you mean by 'new' ;-) - we've been using this version of
Apex for about a year, and indeed the old Ada83 R1000 we used all those
years ago, didn't offer this (or at least i never came across it in the
manuals!).

Robert Dewar wrote:

> In article <37B4335E.7A69258B@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>,
>   Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Rational can do either and you can specify which either via
> switches
> > (environment variables) or a (non-standard) pragma. the
> default set is
> > for macro expansions. and they advise that trying to use
> shared bodies
> > may result in inefficient code.
>
> I trust you are referring to the new Ada 95 Rational technology
> here (certainly the Ada 83 Rational technology did do generic
> sharing). If Rational allowes full generic sharing in Ada 95,
> it is certainly not suprising that they warn that shared bodies
> may cause inefficient code :-)
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