Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-158-g3c12fc3

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Thu 08 Mar 2012 03:37, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

>> commit 24ea9f9c3abb8d9398df4810b815075593ba67c8
>> Author: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Tue Mar 6 22:21:39 2012 +0100
>>
>>     ports.c: inline get_codepoint
>
> It's generally frowned upon nowadays to explicitly ask the C compiler to
> inline functions, as modern compilers usually do a better job of
> deciding when to inline than we do.

This was in response to benchmarking.  In my experience the compiler
usually does a good job but sometimes needs help.  In this case it
helped my benchmark by a percent or so without increasing code size.

Regards,

Andy
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