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From: joakimds@kth.se
Subject: Re: Ada Annoyances
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2017-06-21T04:58:22-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3cdaa6d-6be7-48f4-9df8-f9557d0bf9b6@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ac5a44b-4423-443a-a7bb-2864d9abe78f@googlegroups.com>

Hi! I am also concerned about performance. I really love the object-prefix notation but "it's only available for tagged types" (i.e. type Car_Type is tagged private;) and thus I also avoid tagged types except for when applicable (i.e. large types i.e. containers). I make heavy use of "use all type" instead. Needless to say I am also curious about using tagged types in custom indexers and iterators.

I don't know of a nice solution to your specific case in the Ada language. If you use aliased parameters and implicit dereference you will expose the whole of your buffer not part of it. The cleanest way forward is for you to use a generic function that will expose part of your array. To see an example of this see "procedure Act_On_Immutable_Text (..) " in the Aida.Bounded_String package:
https://github.com/joakim-strandberg/aida_2012/blob/master/config/aida_src/aida-bounded_string.ads

Another thought on performance is avoiding controlled types where possible.

Best regards,
Joakim


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-21 11:58 UTC|newest]

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2017-06-21  1:12 Ada Annoyances pythoner6
2017-06-21 10:13 ` Lucretia
2017-06-23 15:27   ` raph.amiard
2017-06-23 17:49     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-23 19:21       ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-24  4:02         ` Shark8
2017-06-24 19:55         ` Simon Wright
2017-06-24 20:56           ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-25 23:43         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-26 20:20           ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-26 21:47             ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-26 22:23               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-29 19:00               ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-29 21:29                 ` Robert A Duff
2017-06-30  0:50                   ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-03 20:39                     ` Robert A Duff
2017-07-04 19:52                       ` Niklas Holsti
2017-07-04 19:32                   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-30  0:47                 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-30 18:45                   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-30 20:06                     ` Robert A Duff
2017-06-29 21:12         ` Robert A Duff
2017-07-04 19:30           ` Niklas Holsti
2017-07-05 20:03             ` Robert A Duff
2017-06-23 19:22       ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-30 15:02       ` Norman Worth
2017-06-30 23:49         ` pythoner6
2017-07-03  0:04           ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-03 17:47             ` Jere
2017-07-03 19:43               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-04  2:18               ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-17 13:47                 ` Prefixed notation for non tagged types Jere
2017-12-17 15:06                   ` Simon Wright
2017-12-17 15:33                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 22:31                     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-19  0:40                     ` Jere
2017-12-19 23:04                       ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-20 12:33                         ` Robert Eachus
2017-06-21 11:58 ` joakimds [this message]
2017-06-21 12:29   ` Ada Annoyances Pascal Obry
2017-06-21 14:52     ` pythoner6
2017-06-21 16:11       ` J-P. Rosen
2017-06-21 16:12       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-21 22:45         ` pythoner6
2017-06-22  7:29           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-22 10:29             ` pythoner6
2017-06-22 11:04               ` Egil H H
2017-06-22 13:30               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-22 19:22                 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-06-22 21:52                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-23  9:33                     ` AdaMagica
2017-06-23 10:25                       ` Simon Wright
2017-06-23  1:00                 ` pythoner6
2017-06-23 15:23         ` raph.amiard
2017-06-23 16:10           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-23 17:41           ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-23 18:56           ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-23 22:18             ` pythoner6
2017-06-24  8:05               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-24  8:35                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-24  9:07                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-24 20:50                     ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-24 21:06                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-25 11:33                         ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-25 14:32                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-25 20:50                             ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-26  7:58                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-26 13:24                                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-26 16:38                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-26 20:42                                     ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-24  8:34               ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-24 13:06                 ` pythoner6
2017-06-24 15:40                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-26  0:06                 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-26 20:35                   ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-26 21:40                     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-27  7:23                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-27 20:38                         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-28  8:21                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-28 20:50                             ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-28 23:18                               ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2017-06-29  7:27                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-29 16:24                                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-06-29 16:51                                   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2017-07-04 23:40                                   ` Luke A. Guest
2017-07-05  5:29                                     ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-05 13:49                                       ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-07-05 17:49                                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-06-29 21:46                                 ` darkestkhan
2017-06-29  7:15                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-30  0:42                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-30  7:36                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-28 13:07                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-27  7:26                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-27 20:41                         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-06-28  7:57                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-27 15:19                     ` AdaMagica
2017-06-27 16:32                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-28 13:15                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2017-06-28 14:05                         ` AdaMagica
2017-06-29 21:17                           ` Robert A Duff
2017-06-30  7:44                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-30  7:49                               ` J-P. Rosen
2017-06-30  8:28                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-30 10:14                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2017-06-30 10:30                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-28 20:53                         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-17 16:24             ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-17 17:27               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 23:09                 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-19  9:25                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-06-21 20:40       ` G.B.
2017-06-21 22:25         ` pythoner6
2017-06-26 11:01     ` Vincent
2017-06-26 11:15       ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2017-06-26 16:35       ` Pascal Obry
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