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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message 
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>> 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.

In the Win32 API, HeapCreate() can serve the same purpose, and HeapDestroy() 
can be used to clean up after exiting the procedure.