From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/09 Message-ID: <5b2pmn$ntc@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208683761 references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> <32D11FD3.41C6@wi.leidenuniv.nl> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >Bart said > >"You shouldn't bother programmers with inlining. Inlining can be done >automatically by the compiler." > >I don't see this is possible across modules without violating the integrity >of separation of specs and implementations. So? Why is it so important to preserve the "integrity of separation"? I prefer compilers that provides a full range of trade-offs between (re)compilation speed and the efficiency of the generated code. In most circumstances, programmers are best served by a compiler that compiles fast during development (when you want to avoid cross-module inlining, to avoid unnecessary recompilation) but that can pull out all stops for the optimized version. There are times when you want optimizations yet you want to avoid cross-module optimizations, but those should be exceptions; automatic cross-module inlining ought to be the norm. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.