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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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On 06/16/2014 02:53 PM, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
> It's also unfortunate that Vectors are inherently slow.  I wrote a big
> program recently that made heavy use of Vectors.  The Ada 2012 features
> were essential for readability -- Vectors would have been unusable
> otherwise.  But Vectors was way too slow.  So I wrote my own vectors
> package, using the same 2012 features, and then it was fine -- both
> readability-wise and efficiency-wise.

If Vectors are inherently slow, how were you able to write one that wasn't?

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor,
not the programming language."
Preben Randhol
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