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: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: jstern@citilink.com. (Josh Stern) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/12 Message-ID: <5bblaf$q5h@darla.visi.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 209401915 references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> <01bbff25$8b1fa3c0$26170880@annex9-38.dial.umd.edu> <5bbbrd$g1u@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> organization: Citylink Communications newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Fergus Henderson wrote: >Perhaps the most important advantage of inlining is that it creates >opportunities for other optimizations, such as constant propagation, >strength reduction, dead code elimination, common sub-expression >elimination, and hoisting code out of loops. The advantage of inlining >comes not just from avoiding the call/return, but also from being able >to specialize the subroutines's code for each particular invocation. Agreed! And I would go one step further to add that when a programmer can assume that these sort of optimizations will take place, then it is possible to produce code at a given level of performance efficiency that is much more readable and maintainable than otherwise. And it will also be faster to write this code. -Josh