[fpc-devel] Automatic inlining [was: completely messed up subject line]

[Jamie McCracken]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> On 30 May 2005, at 18:29, Jamie McCracken wrote:
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>> What would be nice is to have a compiler switch which takes say an  
>> 8bit value to indicate how many bytes a function must contain in  
>> order to be inlined automatically. That way it is scaleable and so  
>> wont exacerbate the executable file size problem too much.
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> At the point the inlining is performed, the compiler does not have  the 
> slightest idea how large the function will be in terms of bytes.  There 
> is already a an extremely crude "complexity calculation"  function, but 
> it does not have any relation to size (only to speed --  to a certain 
> extent).

It doesn't have to be bytes - Would you now how many opcodes are in the 
function at that point?


jamie.


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