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Re: unexpected speedup by manual inlining
Andrew Bell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Rohit Garg <rpg.314@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a small app. In it in a a particular place, I had a 2-3
>> functions being called from one main function. They were small
>> functions (5-6 lines) and inline keyword was used. The performance was
>> ......... HORRIBLE.
>>
>> -Winline didn't report any case of a function not being inlined.
>
> Perhaps this is suggesting the obvious, but gcc doesn't do inlining if
> you aren't compiling with optimization. You get no warning in this
> case from -Winline.
I was wondering about that. It's why a reproducible test case is
essential.
Andrew.