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: 103376,56131a5c3acc678e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-08 00:45:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!eusc.inter.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question about OO programming in Ada References: <5JmdnUF_9o_ABE-iRTvUrg@rapidnet.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:45:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.211.17 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1070873125 162.84.211.17 (Mon, 08 Dec 2003 03:45:25 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 03:45:25 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3220 Date: 2003-12-08T08:45:25+00:00 List-Id: James Rogers wrote: > My point was that any computations done using the C++ template > language require some computation resources by the computer. > No computations happen without associated CPU cycles. On the > other hand, a computation done at compile time is done once. > A computation done at run-time is done each time the code > block containing the computation is executed. This makes the > use of templates very efficient, but not free. The programmers who are writing the templates often get hungry and have to eat lunch. Don't forget to add that time in as well.