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On 21-Jul-14 15:54, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> There are lots of systems out there where memory space is severely limited.
> And I think that was part of the intended market when Ada was designed.

The other case where shared-generics can be useful is where you need to 
verify the output-objects of the compiler... being able to do this once 
for all instantiations would be a win in the long run.