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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:10:16 +0300
From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Sharing generic bodies across instantiations.
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On 07/27/2010 02:29 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> AdaMagica writes:
>> As far as I understand, GNAT replicates, RR shares generic code.
>> (Don't know about IBM (former Rational).)
>
> My understanding is similar; indeed, Janus/Ada is the only compiler that
> shares generics.  Unfortunately, no compiler offers the option to
> choose; this is an implementation decision.

If I have understood correctly, Irvine's Ada compiler supports
shared generics *and* provides a compile time option for this.

On the other hand, Janus/Ada doesn't provide an option. With it,
shared generics are always used.

-Tero