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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-14 03:58:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Replacement for Text_IO? (was Re: C bug of the day) References: <1054751321.434656@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <20030611114948.00000bcc._elh_@_terma_._com_> <20030611125000.000018b5._elh_@_terma_._com_> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:57:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.47.50 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1055588263 144.132.47.50 (Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:57:43 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:57:43 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39169 Date: 2003-06-14T10:57:43+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > Even the MS-DOS version (full Ada 83) has quite limited compilation > sizes because of 640K doesn't go that far. (Text_IO uses about 65% of > the available memory.) Everyone laments the slowness of Text_IO, and how it isn't a really high powered I/O solution, yet it is used a lot because it is reliably there in every Ada compiler. Are there any moves to provide an alternative to Text_IO in Ada0Y that will allow for more efficient implementations? You could get rid of the Page, Line and Column counting, as well as moving the generic I/O packages into child packages. Names? How about... Ada.Text_IO_Lite Ada.Text_IO_Next_Generation or perhaps... Ada.Next_IO :-) dale