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From: demer@hc17031.hcsd.ca (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Conversion factor for Ada 95
Date: 1997/02/14
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Perhaps more importantly, you need to factor in generics.  After all,
a generic instantiation (one line of source code) can generate
megabytes of machine code.  (I spent the last 3 months reworking a
generic where every instantiation produced about 350kb of machine
code, and we expected about 250 instantiations.   So that's 87.5mb.
If memory costs $100/16mb, that's $500 per workstation.  Multiply this
times 250 workstations, and you're talking some real money here...)

				dave
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