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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/07/06
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John McCabe said

"If you say so - the only efficency advantage I've seen shown is that
it reduces the directory lookup time. This is trivial."

Not at all, directory lookup time can be quite appreciable if you have
very large directories. On some systems, we have found this to be a
significant source of slowing down of compilations.