Quoting Henrik Gramner (2015-09-28 17:41:44)
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But does it actually improve performance measurably? I'd argue that
> > those functions are used in places where it doesn't really matter.
> 
> I was using some perf tools through checkasm when I noticed an awful
> lot of time was spent calling av_isdigit() which was kind of silly,
> and inlining it made it run around 5% faster overall. But yes, it's
> obviously not a performance critical piece of code by any means. I
> haven't really looked at other code that uses any of those functions
> though.
> 
> > And since inline public functions tend to generate pain, it's better to
> > avoid them unless there are large practical gains otherwise.
> 
> av_toupper() and av_tolower() are similar short functions in the same
> file that are currently inlined though, so one could argue that this
> patch improves consistency if nothing else.

Well, I was planning to send a patch to uninline them :)

Anyone else got an opinion on this?

-- 
Anton Khirnov
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