Optimization of conditional access to globals: thread-unsafe?

[Eric Botcazou]

> Note also that excessive inlining often is a loss due to
> increase in icache pressure. In Ada it is the style to
> carefully mark inlinable routines with pragma Inline, and
> we often find in Ada that use of -O3, which activates
> automatic inlining, going beyond what the programmer has
> asked for, is often an overall loss.

That's a little outdated though, 4.x behaves differently.

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Eric Botcazou