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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Various Language Architecture Questions
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:43:59 +0200
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* Simon Wright:

>> Unfortunately, this is not true for some commonly used marshaling
>> schemes.  Even Ada.Streams can be relatively slow (with long arrays
>> with small components, for example).
>
> I've never understood why this _has_ to be. You would have thought
> implementations could behave 'as if' to a large extent.

Not unless this is explicitly specified because the number of calls is
observable in most cases.