Re: Something about std::list<> member functions.

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Nathan Myers <ncm-nospam@cantrip.org> writes:

| On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:55:16PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Dhruv Matani <dhruvbird@gmx.net> writes:
| > 
| > [...]
| > 
| > | form At&T syntax, but I thought (and still do think) that compiler
| > | technology should have evolved by now so as to optimize such stuff into
| > | nothingness...... And, looking at g++ optimizations, I definitely
| > | thought that it could (at least now) optimize away the layer.
| > 
| > See recent discussions on gcc@gcc.gnu.org about inlining.
| 
| Without consulting those, I recall Jason Merrill mentioning that
| you can get enormous optimization improvements just from declaring
| the inline functions' arguments "const", unnecessarily.  Is that 
| advice still current?  Since it doesn't affect the ABI or standard 
| conformance, that seems worth doing where it makes a difference.

We already pass the arguments by const reference.

-- Gaby