On inlining in C++

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> You are assuming a model of someone who understands the possible effects
> of inlining and knows what an instruction cache is and how it works. The
> readership and writership of this list is hardly a representative cross-
> section of "in the trenches" C++ programmers, who in my experience have
> very little awarness of what is going on at the machine level.

I've spent more than a decade managing and working with C++ programmers. 
In my experience, a programmer with "very little awareness" is likely to 
make many significant mistakes; any ill-uses of "inline" will be masked 
by other programming ignorances.

I use C++ because it implicitly trusts the programmer; that is part of 
the core C++ philosophy.

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Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing