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Patrick Jakubowski <patrick.jakubowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
>  I am curious myself if I could prepare and provoke ADA to keep data
> structures in L1 cache.
> 

You can. (I wouldn‘t know, though, how to have the ADA (organization) store
things in a cache.) The idea is that Ada (the language) lets the programmer
express, with relative ease, what needs to be known to safely disable
checks. And then, also, the run-time system can be minimized, even zeroed.