[fpc-devel] inline... and philosophy

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Can you explain what you mean by 'blobbing'?

On 08/11/2019 19:36, Marģers . via fpc-devel wrote:
>> - Identifying functions that are only used once.  This became a slight point of contention between Florian and myself, because I inlined a couple of functions
> Inlining every once used function is just wrong. Gain from eliminating call and function prologue and epilogue might not be sufficient to outweigh "blobing" caller function. One optimizations of clang  is "outline" some parts of larger functions (like else statement).
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