From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/10 Message-ID: <5b5iq5$jfj@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208934971 references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> <32D11FD3.41C6@wi.leidenuniv.nl> <32D53473.4DAA423A@eiffel.com> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >If it was consdered useful to allow unlimited inlining in Ada, it would >be trivial, and very much within the spirit of the language to add a >configuration pragma Inline_All (implementations of Ada are allowed to >add such configuration pragmas, or it could simply be a compiler switch). > >To implement such a switch would be about thirty minutes work in GNAT, but >I doubt it would be found to be of much use in practice, certainly no one >has indicated an interest in such a switch. Let me hereby indicate interest in such a switch! I think it would be quite useful in practice. >On the contrary, in large >programs, people are VERY concerned about compilation dependencies. If >any change to any unit requires recompiling ten million lines of code, >then even with a fast compiler, the impact on development productivity >is worrisome. My (non-Ada) experience is that many programs consist of between a few thousand and a few hundred thousand lines of code, and that often I am interested in building the fastest possible executable and not particularly concerned with compilation speed (since I'm building it in the background) and entirely unconcerned with recompilation speed (since I am just doing `make && make install && make clean'). -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.