Re: Why can't you create a out of order subtype?

[Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>>> That's very, very, very slow...
>>
>>
>> True (if it works at all).
> 
> 
> Before I though you were complaining about the slowness of the Image 
> (Value) operations (because there is probably parsing involved and 
> string values on and off the stack) compared with unchecked conversion 
> and 'Valid (which is very probably faster). Now I realise that you were 
> probably complaining about the slowness of the exception handling 
> mechanism. In that case, my experience with GNAT is that it is not that 
> slow at all. I've made controlled experiments in the past. I think I 
> reported them here.

No, I was complaining about the 'Value/'Image calls. I didn't think it 
was worth re-hashing the ol' "exceptions are slow" argument! :-)

Cheers

-- Martin