On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, Benito van der Zander wrote:
Hi,
why does fpc not remove the calculation of the return value of inline
functions, when the return value is unused?
For example
type TUtility = class
function doSomething: TUtility; inline;
end;
It is a popular pattern to add result := self; to _every_ method (or result
:= @self in objects/records), so it can be chained as
dosomething().dosomething().dosomething(),.....
but one cannot use it with fpc efficiently, when it inserts too many
unnecessary instructions
A strange statement.
This pattern is not inherently efficient. Why should it be ?
It's just something that boiled over from other languages and some people
see it as a nifty way of writing code.
Michael.
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