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Subject: Re: Efficiency of code generated by Ada compilers
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:16:45 +0100
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On 14/08/2010 01:02, in article op.vheielzsule2fv@garhos, "Yannick Duch�ne
(Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Le Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:29:56 +0200, <tmoran@acm.org> a �crit:
>>   The Burroughs machines were like that.  The descriptor pointing to
>> an array included the size as well as the base address, so index in-range
>> was automatically checked by the hardware.
> So these old machines were in some way safer than ones of nowadays

Burroughs-architecture m/cs should not be referred to in the past tense.
They still sell very profitably.

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