On inlining in C++

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Wed Aug 6 02:00:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:49:01PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 09:31 AM, Joe Buck wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:06:43PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> >> 	  Give C++ "inline" its original and obvious meaning
> >>
> >> 	     Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions>
> >
> > Excellent article.
> 
> This is a complete waste of time.  inlining is an optimization.  
> Optimizations are always subject to improvement.  Therefore, inlining 
> is subject to improvement.

Fine.  Then accept Gaby's proposal as a stopgap solution until we can
produce an automatic inliner that is any good.



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