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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Generics vs. O-O?
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:26:37 +0200
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:10:39 -0700 (PDT), optikos@verizon.net wrote:

> On Thursday, August 1, 2013 2:24:57 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> [... snip ...]
>> 5. Considering run-time effects generics obviously have none because it is
>> static polymorphism.
>> [... snip ...]

[...]
> Hence, Ada's branching and table-lookups will in fact incur some
> execution-time overhead when compared to analogous C++ templates and when
> compared to nongeneric equivalent functionality.

This effect is *logically* void. Furthermore, any program that might
exploit it is erroneous.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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