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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada memory management?
Date: 7 Oct 2004 11:23:59 -0500
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In article <ck3jem$72a$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>, Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> Stephen Thomas <vianews@stephenthomas.uklinux.net> wrote:
> 
> :  In
> : the above example, a new storage pool for Int_Ptr is created on
> : entry to Does_This_Leak, and is removed on exit.
> 
> A whole pool is created on procedure entry? Are you sure?

"A whole pool" _might_ be cheap (or not).

I don't know the internals of the VMS Ada compiler, but the operating
system function LIB$CREATE_VM_ZONE is a relatively cheap way to make
something that could be used as a pool by an implementation.