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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
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Subject: Re: Use pragma INLINE or not?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.234429.20796@netcom.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 91 23:44:29 GMT
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>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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