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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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In article <39v2kqF636c21U1@individual.net>, Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> writes:
> Robert A Duff wrote:
>> For efficiency, an Ada implementation is likely to have it's own
>> allocator internally, and only call malloc (or something)
>> once in a while.
> 
> This assumes (1) that the Ada vendor's allocation code is efficient,
> and/or (2) that the platform's malloc is not.

I don't know malloc, but on VMS the underlying allocation interfaces
provide a rich variety of semantics that are just what Ada would need
(in my opinion) for implementing storage pools, etc.  I find it hard
to believe the same versatility would be available from a common C
runtime library routine, but I am biased.