Re: Optimising Elisp code

[Óscar Fuentes]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

>> Just in case any bystander finds this post:
>> don't rely on anything that is mentioned
>> above, nor for C++ `inline' keyword nor for
>> code inlining in general.
>
> I read it in this book:
>
>     @book{cpp-direkt,
>       author     = {Jan Skansholm},
>       ISBN       = {91-44-47931-X},
>       publisher  = {Studentlitteratur},
>       title      = {C++ direkt},
>       year       = {1996}
>     }

The key data point there is "1996". But even then things were not as
simple as you described.

Since long time ago C++ "inline" is really about the ODR ("One
Definition Rule"), not about how the compiler generates code.