[fpc-devel] inline... and philosophy

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Nov 9 14:46:31 CET 2019



On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, Marco van de Voort wrote:

>> Seeking to reduce binary size (without sacrificing speed) and make as 
>> many optimisations as possible may be a fool's errand because the 
>> returns don't justify the costs, but I personally enjoy the challenge 
>> and puzzle-solving element of it.  I just hope I haven't scared off 
>> the administrators when I argued with Florian on my jump optimisations 
>> (the aforementioned inline/blobing issue).
>>
> Start with asking why you feel the need to do it, and how much would be 
> enough.

It's never enough:
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

Michael.


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