<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 3:47 PM Michael Van Canneyt <<a href="mailto:michael@freepascal.org">michael@freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
No doubt, but this will lead to a bloated binary. I want less code (both<br>
source and assembler), not more.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, it would be one instantiation per unique type it was used on. </div><div><br></div><div>So if you had five hand-written helper functions for different types, and replaced all of them with the use of a single generic function, you'd still end up with just five functions worth of assembler code (i.e. the same amount you had to begin with.)</div></div></div>