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From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Generics vs. O-O?
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:35:23 +0200
Date: 2013-08-02T01:35:23+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.w05vs9b5ule2fv@cardamome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 04d5c0d4-8f2f-4308-aef0-13bc7b4595c8@googlegroups.com

Le Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:14:48 +0200, <sbelmont700@gmail.com> a écrit:

> On Thursday, August 1, 2013 3:52:42 PM UTC-4, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote:
>>
>> ...the memory overhead for non-shared generic code could be  
>> substantial...
>>
>
> I have occasion to deal with a lot of "clever" code that fakes OOP using  
> generic packages, i.e. where each instantiation is an object and generic  
> object parameters serve as initializers, and the executable sizes are  
> *tremendous* (presumably the compiler duplicates the code for every  
> subprogram for every instantiation).  As a general rule, I stick to type  
> parameters.
>
> -sb

May this is GNAT? And may she's not using GNAT.

-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-01 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-01 14:45 Generics vs. O-O? Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-08-01 19:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-01 19:52   ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-08-01 20:14     ` sbelmont700
2013-08-01 23:35       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2013-08-01 20:10   ` optikos
2013-08-01 20:26     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-01 20:35     ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-01 21:22     ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-01 23:38     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-01 22:20   ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-08-02  8:11     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-02  9:50       ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-08-02 14:09         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-02 15:08           ` Shark8
2013-08-02 15:36             ` Alan Jump
2013-08-02 17:00               ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-08-02 17:51               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-02 18:06                 ` Alan Jump
2013-08-02 19:08                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-02 16:15             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-03  0:04       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-03  7:35         ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-08-03  8:57           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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