Re: is having a complex type as built-in the languages vs. being in standard package makes performance difference?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message 
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> On a side-note, any one knows why when Ada was originally designed
> in late 1970's, why complex type was not included as part of its
> basic data types?

I think it was considered much less frequently used than the other 
datatypes, and probably that it had a high overhead for small embedded 
systems. So not including it by default made sense.

(Our early Janus/Ada compilers had floating point optional, because of the 
high overhead on small machines like the Z80 CP/M machines that we started 
out on. The float library took up 20% of the code space on those machines, 
so it was rarely used. Complex is used a lot less often than basic floats.)

                                          Randy.