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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: GNAT: Performance of String functions
Date: 1997/07/24
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 <5r1l6e$e0h$1@ratatosk.uio.no> <1997Jul22.071638.1@eisner>
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Date: 1997-07-24T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5r7n83$b37$1@ratatosk.uio.no>, tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei
Jensen) wrote:


>The alternative bounded string is just an unbounded string. That means that
>there is a potential copy of the string each time the size changes. This may
>be worse than the original GNAT version of bounded string wich only performs
>the copy on assignment.

You are confused.  The alternative is _not_ the same as an "unbounded
string," nor does it require any use of heap.

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