Yet another efficiency question - To_Lower

[Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

I was wondering if the a procedure

   procedure To_Lower (Item : in out String);

would be any more efficient for performing To_Lower operations
than the equivalent function in Ada.Characters.Handling, for when
a string is modified in place, i.e.

   Some_String : String (1..Size);
	
   Some_String := Ada.Characters.Handling.To_Lower (Some_String);

My simple view of the implementation of the function would be that it
allocates space (heap? secondary stack?), copies the values from 
Some_String to the temporary, modifies the value, and then copies it
back. (I'm always concerned when I think I see cases of copies being
made for no good reason).

C's to_lower, of course, just does an in place modification of the
'string'.


Dale