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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: performance of Generic and strings
Date: 1999/08/14
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In article <37B4335E.7A69258B@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>,
  Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Rational can do either and you can specify which either via
switches
> (environment variables) or a (non-standard) pragma. the
default set is
> for macro expansions. and they advise that trying to use
shared bodies
> may result in inefficient code.

I trust you are referring to the new Ada 95 Rational technology
here (certainly the Ada 83 Rational technology did do generic
sharing). If Rational allowes full generic sharing in Ada 95,
it is certainly not suprising that they warn that shared bodies
may cause inefficient code :-)


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