Re: This can't be done in Ada...or?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Mark Lorenzen wrote:
> "Per Lindquist" <commander@death-star.com> writes:

> > One of our target environments is a time-critical real-time
> > system. We are worried about the execution overhead implied by a
> > package instantiation (or any 'new' statement) in every subprogram
> > in the system.
> > 
> > Will your solution cause overhead for each subprogram call?
> 
> A compile-time instantiation of a package has nothing to do with
> run-time efficiency. You can also define a new type in a subprogram,
> which doesn't affect run-time efficiency either.

Aren't the compilers (theoretically) allowed to delay the
instantiation of the packgage until run-time?

Jacob
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