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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Question about arrays and no. of elements
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 18:32:58 +0200
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amal.alphonse@gmail.com writes:

> If I define an array with say a million elements, and I only put
> data in 10 of them, is it actually a waste of space/time with the
> array or does Ada only create elements when there is data to put in
> (so it is efficient)?

With GNAT on Linux, you will only use memory for the part of the array
you put something into (modulo the page size - which I think is 4 kb).

Greetings,

Jacob
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