Re: "new" word

[Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>]

Robert A Duff wrote:
> For efficiency, an Ada implementation is likely to have it's own
> allocator internally, and only call malloc (or something)
> once in a while.

This assumes (1) that the Ada vendor's allocation code is efficient,
and/or (2) that the platform's malloc is not.

Verdix tried that in the 1980s--and the results were dismal.
Their fix for serious heap fragmentation problems was to tell
us the linker commands/pragmas to make 'new' bypass their
code and go directly to malloc.

-- 
Wes Groleau
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