[fpc-devel] don'tyou think it'stime toupdatedelphimodecompatibility?- IDispatch, implements

[Jamie McCracken]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

>>
>>well thats soemthing you should add to your to do list. Automatic
>>inlining can deliver a signifcant performance improvement especially as
>>delphi uses a lot of one line procedures to set property values. A
>>fucntion call adds quite a bit of overhead (around 10+ clock cycles at a
>>guess)
> 
> 
> Yes, inlining property getters/setters can speed up some code. I often
> have methods that do nothing but an type cast.
> 
> I don't know what efforts were required to implement something like
> {$AUTO_INLINE ON}. When the compiler already decides, which of the
> explicitly marked "inline" procedures really to inline, such an option
> might require not much additional code. The automatic checks could be
> restricted to procedures up to a certain code size, e.g. 10 bytes
> excluding subroutine enter/exit code. An -AutoInline <size> command line
> option also could help to eliminate all those {$IFDEF fpc} inline
> {$ENDIF} inserts in portable source code.
> 

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.

jamie.