On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:12:24 -0600 Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote: > I think it's at least worthwhile to investigate the use of > inline/static functions over the current macros. It's been many years > since I looked at them. I doubt they have gotten any easier to read or > edit with all their backslashes.
I can assure you they haven't :-) > I do have one question though. Suppose you encounter a compiler that > doesn't understand the inline keyword, so you choose the static > declaration as Kristján suggested. The resulting Python executable > should be functionally correct, but if the optimizer doesn't happen to > inline a given static function you might be stuck with some bad > performance across-the-board You're right. Since we only define macros where performance is critical (such as INCREF and DECREF), it would definitely have a very significant impact on performance. > Is there a configurable way to tell if a compiler will inline > functions which are declared static, and possibly under what > conditions they might not? It might still be necessary to maintain > macros for those platforms. Well, if we must maintain macros, let's maintain them everywhere and avoid the burden of two different implementations for the same thing. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
