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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> Generics are automatically at disadvantage, even performance-wise,
> because in all contexts where types are statically known there is no
> dispatch in Ada. Since generics are always static in all comparable
> cases dynamically polymorphic calls are statically resolved.

Why are generics worse performance-wise then?  If the type can be
statically deduced then the compiler can generate specialized code.

Do you use ML?  Do you think its module language is also bad?