Function Object inlining

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@gmail.com> writes:

> I was reading about the implementation of the Computational Geometry
> and Algorithms Library (www.cgal.org) recently and one particular
> thing struck me.  They mentioned things like
> 
> template<class T>
> class Calc_something
> {
>   operator()(T &t1, T& t2) {...}
> 
> };
> 
> 
> when used in a context like
> 
> 
> ...
> Point p1(0, 0, 0);
> Point p2(1, 0, 0)
> Calc_something()(p1, p2);
> 
> are inlined in many cases by the compiler.  Is this the case?

Yes.

> Are things like this fairly straightforward optimizations?

Yes.

Ian