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Re: On inlining in C++ with unit-at-a-time code
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> Concerning the inlining limits, I believe we should increase them.
Sure, your analysis seems convincing...
> Situation seems to be the same for C++ programs I tested too (your
> benchmark suite and similar).
...and if someone else has conflicting test results, we can always
consider these later.
> For functions marked explicitely as inline I would like the limit to
> see even higher limit if C++ programming style allows us to do, this
> needs more testing, but I think the values around 500 would be OK.
In the light of recent discussion on this list, this seems like a
good idea.
> I hope we can enable unit-at-a-time at -O2 by default and solve the
> problem in easy way. In SuSE we are experimentally building the
> distribution with it and now all problems directly attributable to
> unit-at-a-time seems to be gone.
Well, if you can build an entire distribution without problems, that
certainly looks good enough.
> With this settings I believe we should be able to quite consistently
> outperform the old inlining heuiristics of 2.95 both compile time-memory
> wise and code quality wise.
Cool. Really.
Gerald