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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Pass by reference
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:46:13 +0200
Date: 2004-04-13T10:46:13+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5g9cv$18adf$1@ID-77047.news.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871xmtv0pz.fsf@beeblebrox.enst.fr

Samuel Tardieu wrote:

>>>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry A Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
> Dmitry> When T is in a register it might be more efficient than
> Dmitry> by-reference. But let the compiler decide it knows better.
> 
> If T is an object, its tag alone (likely to be an address in many
> implementations) will already take the whole space in the register.

The beauty of Ada's OO concept is that T need not to have any tag, as
opposed to T'Class. With by-reference parameter passing it is almost no
matter, but for by-copy one it makes much sense to keep T and T'Tag
separate. For example, one could have Boolean and Boolean'Class.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-13  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-08 14:52 Pass by reference Dan McLeran
2004-04-08 18:21 ` Martin Krischik
2004-04-09 12:53   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-13 12:42     ` Martin Krischik
2004-04-08 19:04 ` Jim Rogers
2004-04-09  3:24   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-09  0:01 ` Stephen Leake
2004-04-09 12:38   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-09 13:03     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-09 19:09       ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-10 10:49         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-11 12:43       ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-12 10:29         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-12 12:29           ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-04-13  8:46             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2004-04-10  1:42     ` Stephen Leake
2004-04-10 16:05       ` chris
2004-04-09 12:44   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-09 22:44     ` Randy Brukardt
2004-04-09 14:44   ` Simon Wright
2004-04-09  1:15 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-04-09  1:28   ` Pat Rogers
2004-04-10  1:05     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-04-09 12:57   ` Dan McLeran
2004-04-10  1:16     ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-04-09  4:03 ` Steve
2004-04-09 14:50   ` Simon Wright
2004-04-09 17:12     ` Pat Rogers
2004-04-09 19:33       ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-04-10  6:33         ` Simon Wright
2004-04-13 10:26           ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-04-14 17:27             ` Simon Wright
2004-04-15  9:43               ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-04-17  7:59                 ` Simon Wright
2004-04-11 12:45   ` Florian Weimer
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