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From: Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: Q: memory management
Date: 1996/06/21
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

    Robert> Hannes said "I have several 100000 memory regions of
    Robert> different, not at compile time known quite small sizes."

    Robert> I cannot conceive of any legitimate need in an Ada program
    Robert> for allocating several hundred thousand small areas of raw
    Robert> memory. Possibly one could imagine a C program doing this,
    Robert> but not an Ada program.

Imagine bignum arithmetic with garbage collection. If I'd have just
some bignums there would be too many garbage collections.

 - hannes