> On Friday, February 14, 2014 04:59:26 PM atarob wrote: > > Looking through the codebase, I see a lot of very short helper like > > functions that are defined in .c files with prototypes in .h files. > This > > means that the compiler cannot inline them outside of that .c file. > > Am I > > wrong? How is that not a performance hit?
> I suppose they will be inlined at -O2 level: > http://linux.die.net/man/1/gcc > Think about it. -O2 is a compiler flag. Optimization happens at compile time. NOT at link time. If the function is defined in another .c file, how can the compiler, which compiles on .c file at a time, possibly have access to the definition, let alone inline it. That's why we put inline function that are supposed to be called by other .c files in a .h file. Am I wrong? Ata. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,247575,247582#msg-247582 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
