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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:51:25 -0400
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com>
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Subject: Sharing generic bodies across instantiations.
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Date: 2010-07-26T20:51:25-04:00
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It has been my understanding that Ada's generics are designed in such a
way as to allow implementations to share the code of a generic body
across all the instantiations. I understand that doing this might
involve a performance penalty relative to creating independent code for
each instantiation. However, I can see that there are cases where such
sharing would be desirable.

Is my understanding still accurate (was it ever accurate), for example
even with Ada 2005?

Thanks!

Peter