From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Yet another efficiency question - To_Lower
Date: 1997/07/11
Date: 1997-07-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5q4lnk$9m$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5pclke$203$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
Robert Dewar writes:
"Indeed, functions returning variable length results will alwqays be less
efficient than operating in place on an in out fixed length parameter
(fixed length for a particular call)."
The Ada model for constructors is to have functions returning values.
The logical implication then is that this is less efficient than the
C++ in situ constructor model, no?
Dale
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-02 0:00 Yet another efficiency question - To_Lower Dale Stanbrough
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-07-15 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
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