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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/15
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In article <80ival$og$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <382C40FA.248E6840@mitre.org>,
>   "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> wrote:
> > Streams should value portability over speed
>
> I strongly disagree in two contexts:
>
> 1. People often use stream_io expecting efficient direct binary
> I/O of e.g. records. To introduce substantial inefficiencies
> would be a severe perturbation.

Isn't it already quite inefficient in that writing a large composite
involves dispatching to the write routine for each and every element?

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