H. S. Teoh wrote:
Having said all that, though, have you used a profiler to determine whether or not your performance bottleneck is really at the function in question? I find that 90% of the time what I truly believe should be inlined actually doesn't make much difference; the bottleneck is usually somewhere else that I didn't expect. I used to spend lots of time trying to hyper-optimize everything, only to discover later that 90% of my efforts have been wasted on gaining a meager 1% of performance, whereas if I had just used a profiler in the first place, I would have gotten a 50% performance improvement with only 10% of the effort.
hear, hear!
