From: Wincent Colaiuta Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:12:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make strbuf_cmp inline, constify its arguments and optimize it a bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071007215432.GC2765@steel.home> El 7/10/2007, a las 23:54, Alex Riesen escribió: >> ... All the rest pretty much >> was worse than what we started from in that it needed to reevaluate >> more conditions and turned out more complicated and obfuscate even to >> the human reader. > > it _is_ smaller. And it is _measurably_ faster on that thing I have at > home (and old p4). Can we see the numbers and the steps used to obtain them? I'm also a little bit confused about how an inlined function can lead to a smaller executable... or did you just mean lines-of-code? Cheers, Wincent