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Subject: Re: Replacement for Text_IO? (was Re: C bug of the day)
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Dale Stanbrough:

> Everyone laments the slowness of Text_IO,

Who ? Who ?

> and how it isn't a really
> high powered I/O solution, yet it is used a lot because it is
> reliably there in every Ada compiler.
> 
> Are there any moves to provide an alternative to Text_IO in Ada0Y
> that will allow for more efficient implementations?
> You could get rid of the Page, Line and Column counting,

Are you sure that *this* takes much time ? Did you do a profiling ?

> as well as moving the generic I/O packages into child packages.

It is an aesthetic issue (although, who cares ?), not a performance
one... Do such non-instanciated generic sub-packages even appear in
the machine-code in object files, on any compilation system ?
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