Re: Using Ada.Containers.Vector and Limited Private types

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Gene wrote:
> 
> You might want to be careful about this. I guess it depends how soft
> soft is. Internally it looks like GNAT ends up calling gcc malloc/free
> for UBS.  Implementations of malloc/free can have wildly varying
> performance depending on current heap structure.  Your app may meet
> time requirements today on test data and fail tomorrow because the
> heap has fragmented in a different way.

We are aware of the potential problems with Unbounded_String, but so far we are 
in actual use without problems. Since Unbounded_String is, conceptually at 
least, just a controlled wrapper around a pointer to String, we would expect to 
have to deal with the same problems if we manipulated such pointers directly. If 
we do encounter problems, we will probably replace Unbounded_String with some 
sort of bounded string.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"What lazy lout left these wires all over the lawn?"
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