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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: style Q: type .. is new String;
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> Me too.  And I also use Unbounded_String a lot because it has the wonderful
> feature of memory magic (no memory associated with a US object is lost upon
> assignment or scope exit).  (Shameless publicity: I'll expound this memory
> magic approach to container design in Ada-Europe 2004 in the half day
> tutorial "No Pointers, Great Programs". See you there ;-)

What about performance?  I've always been worried about the time lost
allocating/deallocating memory all over the place.

Thanks,

Duncan.