Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()? | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 28 Jul 2003 12:19:13 +0900 |
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Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> writes: > Inlines don't always help performance (depending on cache sizes, branch > penalties, frequency of code access...), but they do always increase > code size.
Um, inlining can often _decrease_ code size because it gives the compiler substantial new opportunities for optimization (the function body is no longer opaque, so the compiler has a lot more info, and any optimizations done on the inlined body can be context-specific).
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