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 10.13.222.129 with SMTP id h123mr4511744ywe.150.1504989318433; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.121.71 with SMTP id z68mr357965itc.4.1504989318398; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!q8no1616430qtb.0!news-out.google.com!c139ni2046itb.0!nntp.google.com!o200no1399854itg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 13:35:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.255.112.230; posting-account=NT38RwoAAAB4_OO_uw8yHtNaa9Hkjukk NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.255.112.230 References: <4dc188de-802b-41ad-9cdd-b8246eb9a1c7@googlegroups.com> <47cc6474-8b75-4644-92d0-bd1f694c20e7@googlegroups.com> <338b355a-dee4-4c73-b00e-09d9a8430fb1@googlegroups.com> <21692daf-5a52-43f0-a72a-d79e6a7dcc9f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9oYW4gU8O2ZGVybGluZCDDhXN0csO2bQ==?= Injection-Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 20:35:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48001 Date: 2017-09-09T13:35:17-07:00 List-Id: > The memory footprint of most arrays is insignificant. I usually do this kind > of thing with Strings, and the typical string is only a few dozen bytes. > Obviously, if a single array is using most of the memory on the computer, > then you don't want to copy it. (But you're not going to pass those as a > parameter in the first place.) I am not? In which way should I pass large arrays?