From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@NoSPAM.cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: GNAT Ada.Streams Bug?
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:30:19 -0500
Date: 2004-11-26T12:30:19-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <LKJpd.59640$Ro.2237800@news20.bellglobal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <co6u7j$d7n$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@nospam.cogeco.ca> wrote:
> : The point about efficiency is also a good one to raise. For
> : example, if you String'Read(Stream,Var), GNAT calls the
> : 'Read routine for each and every Character of the string.
> : One pines for something more efficient than this, and I
> : hope for the day when this improves in GNAT. (hint)
>
> While not a stream of elements, perhaps Fast_Read in
> the XML/Ada sources is of interest?
All kinds of possibilities are available when _you_ control
the format. But when dealing with things like partition
tables, and existing file formats, I find it disappointing
that Ada95 struggles with this. I am happy to see that this
problem is recognized, and will in some way be addressed in
the Ada200Y standard.
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-26 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-25 17:41 GNAT Ada.Streams Bug? Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-11-25 19:40 ` Jeff C r e e.m
2004-11-26 4:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-11-26 9:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-26 17:30 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2004-11-27 7:34 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-28 1:10 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-11-29 7:50 ` tmoran
2004-11-29 17:47 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-11-26 22:47 ` Simon Wright
2004-11-27 14:42 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-11-27 17:25 ` Simon Wright
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