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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
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Date: 2013-01-30T21:16:10-05:00
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

>...(I probably wouldn't architect a new compiler like Janus/Ada 
> is, as memory savings is not an important criteria today, ...

Memory savings (we're talking about the host, not the target)
is not important today directly -- but it affects cache behavior,
which is still important for speed.

>...but I still 
> wouldn't like wasting significant amounts of memory (line/position 
> information being stored in almost every symbol table entry) to carry almost 
> no information.

There are various ways to store line/column numbers compactly without
limiting line lengths.

- Bob