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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.70.44.230 with SMTP id h6mr13851376pdm.7.1405979690929; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:54:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.57.113 with SMTP id h17mr318376igq.0.1405979690674; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!enother.net!enother.net!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!h18no5256682igc.0!news-out.google.com!eg1ni1igc.0!nntp.google.com!h18no5256678igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:54:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <45b2d813-f991-4c1c-b280-a1037bae8a66@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Rough proposal to make some generic types static From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:54:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 1699 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2109854107 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21107 Date: 2014-07-21T14:54:50-07:00 List-Id: 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