On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:16:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Sorry for butting in, but I just can't follow the reasoning here. > Unless a function is only ever used once and is inlined at the single > callsite, or unless the prolog and epilog are several times the size of > the function body, isn't inlining /always/ (not just "typically", but > actually *always*) going to increase code size?
Nope. C++ is full of tiny functions that (for example) get or set one value of a class. Inlining them strictly reduces code size.
