From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
Subject: Re: Use pragma INLINE or not?
Date: 19 Jun 91 23:44:29 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.234429.20796@netcom.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1991Jun18.171459.11744@software.org
>There seem to be 2 schools of thought:
> 1) Don't use it. Smart compilers will automatically
> inline the most appropriate routines.
> 2) Use it. Compilers aren't that smart yet.
>What do you think?
[Tried to e-mail this, but it bounced...]
Let the compiler inline when it can figure it out. Use a profiler
to find bottlenecks when tuning the code, and manually inline the
offenders. DON'T inline everything to "be sure"--this has a bunch
of bad effects, and is completely unecessary (10% of your code uses
90% of your CPU).
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1991-06-18 17:14 Use pragma INLINE or not? Fred Stluka
1991-06-19 8:58 ` Orville R. Weyrich
1991-06-19 15:15 ` Robert I. Eachus
1991-06-19 15:57 ` Brian Hanafee
1991-06-19 21:51 ` George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University
1991-06-19 23:44 ` Jim Showalter [this message]
1991-06-27 16:13 ` Robert Firth
1991-06-27 21:00 ` Michael Feldman
1991-06-28 12:39 ` Kenneth B. Hawks
1991-06-28 17:56 ` Lance E Murray
1991-06-28 15:09 ` Use pragma INLINE or not? (SUMMARY) Fred Stluka
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1991-06-20 13:07 Use pragma INLINE or not? Bevin Brett
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