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From: Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Rough proposal to make some generic types static
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:54:50 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-07-21T14:54:50-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6ff57b6-911d-45b1-bf2f-98123ec4648f@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lqk1k5$3r1$1@speranza.aioe.org>

On Monday, July 21, 2014 2:44:35 PM UTC-7, Victor Porton wrote:
> Adam Beneschan wrote:

> I am not an expert in compiler optimization, but it looks anyway impossible 
> for me to make efficient shared code for formal scalar types of possibly 
> different sizes.

Some users care more about code space than execution time.  There are lots of systems out there where memory space is severely limited.  And I think that was part of the intended market when Ada was designed.

                             -- Adam

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-21 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-21 20:44 Rough proposal to make some generic types static Victor Porton
2014-07-21 20:54 ` Victor Porton
2014-07-21 21:28   ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-21 21:32     ` Victor Porton
2014-07-21 21:43       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-21 23:10       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-21 21:39 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-21 21:44   ` Victor Porton
2014-07-21 21:54     ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2014-07-21 21:58       ` Victor Porton
2014-07-22  0:20         ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-23 21:36         ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-21 22:06       ` Shark8
2014-07-21 23:12     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-22  9:53       ` AdaMagica
2014-07-22 21:10         ` Randy Brukardt
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