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: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208948176 references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> <32D11FD3.41C6@wi.leidenuniv.nl> <5b56u0$fsc@news.eng.octel.com> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Simon says "I agree it can't be done with a stupid linker, but I was just pointing out that inlining can be done in Ada without affecting the programmer. You just have to leave the jobs of optimisation and (machine) code generation to a later stage." Let's look at that carefully. The second paragaph implies that the link step redoes optimization and compilations for the entire program. Even with fast machines and fast compilers, I think that this is definitely something that would "affect the programmer". As I have pointed out before, it is of course a trivial adjustment to an Ada compiler to make it automatically check for inlining everywhere (it is in fact a one line change to the GNAT compiler). But it is not clear that this is a useful option in practice, although maybe this discussion will suddenly make one of our customers suggest it :-)