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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 19:56:02 -0500
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>
>> Probably, but not all Ada compilers will do that. OTOH, it really
>> doesn't matter unless you need to burn a ROM (the time elaboration
>> takes is usually small enough to ignore).
>
> The Cortex-M series have much larger ROM (well, Flash) than RAM; for
> example, the Arduino Due has 512K Flash, 96K SRAM. So you are much
> better off having constant data that can stay in the Flash.

That's what I said (or meant) -- you're burning a ROM (or doing something 
similar). If you're targeting Windows or Linux, that doesn't apply.

                               Randy.