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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Why forbid local generic instantiations?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:23:55 -0600
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> Perhaps such people don't know that instantiation takes place during 
> compilation and has no run-time impact.

I agree with most of what you said, but this statement is false, since the 
instance is elaborated at the point of the instantation. Depending on the 
generic, that could be a substantial amount of execution time. (Note that is 
even more true for a code-shared implementation like Janus/Ada, since the 
elaboration of the instance creates the instantiation descriptor.)

                       Randy.