From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4f0b59438ce4c5b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-19 18:43:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031008 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Deallocation & Tagged Types References: <5Fhkb.3195$KA5.27417@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net> <3F9336B1.6070703@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <3F9336B1.6070703@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:43:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.228.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1066614232 162.84.228.90 (Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:43:52 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:43:52 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1162 Date: 2003-10-20T01:43:52+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > This is why garbage collectors for Ada are so useless. Another reason is Ada's ability to have parameters, return values, and variables of unconstrained types. This allows stack objects to be used in places where other languages, such as C++, require dynamic allocation. Less "garbage" created means less garbage to collect.