Re: KNF and the C preprocessor

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> I'd like to submit that neither are a good thing, because human
> beings are demonstrably quite bad at deciding when things should be
> inlined, particularly in terms of the cache effects of excessive
> inline use.

Compilers are no better when - as is often the case for NetBSD - there
is no compile-time knowledge of exactly what CPU will end up running
the code.  Indeed, I doubt the compiler is capable of being told things
like the exact size of the cache, size of a cache line, and what else
will be running at the same time, any of which can tip the balance of
whether inlining or calling is better.

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