slightly offtopic ...
> There is an insane amount of inlining in the ipc code. I
> couldn't keep my paws off it.
I agree tempting: I thought you might like that in a subsequent patch,
yes? Mingming was splitting locks, not doing a cleanup of inlines.
There was a time when "inline" was a very cool tool because it had been
judged that the overhead of actually calling a function was just too
heinous to contemplate. From comments in this and other discussions,
is it safe to say that the pendulum has now swung the other way? I see
a lot of people concerned about code size and apparently returning to
the axiom of "if you use it more than once, make it a function." Are
we as a community coming around to using inlining only on very tight,
very critical functions?
Rick
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