On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:51:22AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Jon Griffiths wrote:
Size and speed.
The inlined versions are to meant to be used within the variant code, the biggest user being the coercion functions when I get round to updating them (after the low level stuff). The code for the vast majority of conversions is smaller than the code needed to push the args and call the functions, since they are simply casts. Where a common function is used for the conversion of most types the calls can be combined skipping a level of indirection.
I see, I did not notice the _-versions where inlined. But since all uses seem to be in the same file (is this correct), can't we just mark the regular ones as extern inline?
Yes, please do.
Newer gccs will use unit optimization and optimize better, regardless of order of functions.
And/Or place Coerce last in the file ;)
Ciao, Marcus