From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
Subject: Re: Streams in GNAT 3.14p
Date: 10 Jun 2002 12:14:41 -0700
Date: 2002-06-10T19:14:41+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4519e058.0206101114.4b8dfd2f@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ae295a$3b12g$1@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de
Dmitry A.Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message news:<ae295a$3b12g$1@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de>...
> Hi!
>
> Recently I found that GNAT 3.14p implementation of streams looks a bit
> strange. When a tagged object is written (S'Class'Output), then
> Write(Stream, Item) is called for each character of the external
> representation of tag _separately_. For types declared in deeply nested
> child packages it is about 100 separate calls.
That's the way String'Output (and any other array 'Output) works by
default. I suppose they could have optimized it for tag strings
without running afowl of the ARM, but it isn't horribly suprising that
they didn't.
--
T.E.D.
Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison)
Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-10 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-11 1:24 Streams in GNAT 3.14p Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-10 19:14 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-06-12 8:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-12 19:50 ` Randy Brukardt
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox