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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:23:11 +0200 Message-ID: <5g6dd059kknghippkb2jri3m8l76kidtcu@4ax.com> References: <40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de tJt0jnp4IgH0h5z0XJXPygx/eD87dwnJqn2gQMMy9NG56Qvw4= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1728 Date: 2004-06-21T10:23:11+02:00 List-Id: On 20 Jun 2004 21:16:16 -0700, 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote: >Well, if initialize and finalize are fundamentally no different than >constructors and destructors, then I conclude that Ada does not have >automated memory management any more than C++ has it. (I may be a bit >slow, but I catch on eventually.) The difference is that in Ada there is much lesser need in objects allocated in the heap. That makes things a lot easier and safer. Moreover it is also much more efficient, especially in a parallel environment. -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de