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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Will "renames" increase program size?
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Additionally to=A0Randy's answer: IIRC, renaming a primitive operation
adds an entry to the dispatch table, and the original and the renamed
operation may be overridden with different operations upon derivation.