From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,604e0f87aa06eab6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-23 15:39:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030315 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery References: <1047665830.579605@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <87smtecoan.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <87smtecoan.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <9Brfa.87573$iq1.44883@nwrddc02.gnilink.net> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:39:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.250.162 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1048462789 162.83.250.162 (Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:39:49 US/Eastern) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:39:49 US/Eastern Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35639 Date: 2003-03-23T23:39:49+00:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer wrote: > The same is true for C# generics. The cited site specifically refutes this; C# generics may be instantiated with fundamental types, and then the system actually generates code which inlines the operations. > Obivously, efficient implementation is a prime concern. Using this > model, you get shared generics essentially for free. And they do use that for Object-derived types, but they do what I said as well.