Re: [boost] BOOST_FORCE_INLINE

Subject: Re: [boost] BOOST_FORCE_INLINE
From: Domagoj Saric (domagoj.saric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-10 04:46:13

On 10.10.2011. 8:22, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
> +1, my thoughts exactly, Beman.  Can anyone provide any links to a case
> study or something similar investigating the effects of forcing inlining?
> I'm definitely interested to see what real effects this could have.

Well Mathias has already outlined the major reasons. That seems like quite 
sufficient documentation. If a developer is performance conscious and notices 
one the outlined problems in the codegen he can simply try the force inline 
approach and see if it helps. I don't see where a problem could lie there or a 
reason for wasting too much time discussing something so simple. Otherwise one 
could question any existing part of the language by pointing that it could be 
abused (unintentionally or otherwise).

I don't know of a "study" related to forceinline, but in this case it arose as a 
(partial) solution to the problems listed by Mathias in the development of the 
NT2 (and thuse Boost.SIMD and Boost.Dispatch) libraries. These were discussed on 
the NT2 dev mailing list an on #nt2 so maybe someone can present logs of these 
discussions if you are interested...

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