Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y impact

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> As far as naming is concerned, gcc effectively supports four levels,
> which *currently* map onto macros as follows:
> 
> __always_inline		Inline unconditionally
> inline			Inlining hint
> <nothing>		Standard heuristics
> noinline		Uninline unconditionally
> 
> A lot of noise is being made about the naming of the levels

The biggest problem is the <nothing>. 

The standard heuristics for that are broken, in particular for the "single 
call-site static function" case.

If gcc only inlined truly trivial functions for that case, I'd already be 
much happier. Size be damned.

			Linus
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