warning about 'large-function-growth limit reached'

Richard Tobin richard at inf.ed.ac.uk
Thu Jun 15 08:01:15 PDT 2006


> Either way inlining is overrated unless the function is
> both extremely small and frequently used, and yet still too messy to
> make a macro.

That depends on how you measure "small".  A function consisting of
a hundred-case switch, with most of the cases very small (e.g. a
virtual machine) might well be worth inlining.

-- Richard





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