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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Amount of copying on returned constant objects
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:22:34 +0300
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Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
>> If you investigate GNAT, could you please post your findings here?
> 
> I'll do, but I'm not sure if I will do this anytime soon :/

I tried a bit last night, with a quick and dirty test program. There's no
such optimization for GNAT GPL 2007 with -O2/-O3. I don't know about more
esoteric optimization switches.

I was going to paste this code but it has vanished from my /tmp folder
(silly me) after boot. Oh well, perhaps I'll rewrite it.