Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/widen-less a4ba846: Replace prog-widen with consolidating widen calls

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12/21/17 3:33 AM, John Wiegley wrote:

> And I wouldn't really call using define-inline instead of defun for
> tiny functions "premature optimization" in cases like these. You're not
> changing the semantics of the function, just indicating it's small enough that
> it should be inlined when byte-compiling. And you know the number of call
> sites too, so it won't cause code bloat. When it's that harmless, I usually do
> it as a matter of convention in my own code.

It's simply extra work. Also see what the manual says: 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Inline-Functions.html, 
"you should not make a function inline...".