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Re: GCC -On optimization passes: flag and doc issues



On Apr 17, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:



increase code size? I feel I must be missing something really obvious... is
it just that the other optimisations that become possible on inline code
usually compensate?

That or the savings from not having to save/restore registers, set up the frame, etc as well.

Don't forget the call and its setup. Trivially, inlining an empty function is always a size win.
There actually were a couple in Spec95.



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