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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> writes:

> That depends how you define "heap."

I define "a heap" as a synonym for "a storage pool".  Now "*the* heap"
is another matter.  ;-)

User defined storage pools can take advantage of special properties of
the allocated type to produce efficient allocation.  But still, nothing
beats the normal allocation in the stack frame of a procedure.

- Bob