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"chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

> I'm not going to argue with you (you've made up your mind and so have I,
> what's the point?), I'm just curious as to whether compilers would see A :=
> A / 2 and think "that code's dividing the matrix by 2 and assigning it to
> itself.  It might be better just to divide it inplace" leading to the same
> thing.  But then I'm largely ignorant of compilers.

I don't think any Ada compilers are that smart.

- Bob