Re: Please list all the Ada libraries you know

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 06/03/2013 18:08, Adam Beneschan a �crit :
> If you're trying to say "big enough that one can sense it",
> "sensible" isn't the right word--it means something totally
> different.  "Noticeable" is probably the word you wanted.
I confess that I've been trapped. I did mean noticeable, but I typed too
fast...

> Anyway, though, my feeling is that once one has chosen to build a
> "source model" compiler--which means, if I understand it correctly,
> that if you WITH a package then the compiler has to read the original
> source of the WITH'ed package specification--then one has already
> decided that disk access time isn't an issue.  (If it were, the
> compiler could do something to create a smaller, compressed version
> of the specification that it would read in instead of reading the
> original source.)  So whatever good reasons there might be for GNAT
> to default to a particular case convention, saving disk read time
> probably isn't a valid reason.
> 
It may well be the other way round. In a library model, you keep the
same information (about specs) in the form of tables, and it is not
obvious that they use less space than the source form.


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