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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions
Date: 14 Aug 2002 16:25:57 -0400
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> <snip>
> ... The only advantage of a
> library is improved memory management (can't leak memory), 

Not necessarily true; libraries will of course provide other useful
functions (like iterating, concatenating).

> but it makes indexing and slicing harder and more expensive (as the
> data must copied for each operation - which may be quite expensive).
> It is rare (other than in quick and dirty programs, not what Ada is
> for) that the performance hit in access can be justifed for the ease
> of memory management.

That may be true for the applications you have written; it is _not_
true for _all_ applications.

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-- Stephe