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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 22:26:59 -0500
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"Laurent" <lutgenl@icloud.com> wrote in message 
news:0d266aaa-25f6-49a3-ae0d-e55150182efe@googlegroups.com...
> On Friday, 3 July 2015 19:46:29 UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter  wrote:
...
>> If you're not happy, use Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String.
>
> Aren't Unbounded_Strings wasting memory too?

Typical implementations of unbounded string allocate the data either to 
exact size or at most a small increment larger. So unless your bound is very 
small, the amount of waste is likely to be smaller. How much smaller of 
course depends on your data.

                                          Randy.