Re: Optimising Elisp code

[Emanuel Berg]

> I have now look it up in another book, namely
>
>     @book{c-programming-language,
>       author     = {Bjarne Stroustrup},
>       ISBN       = {0-201-53992-6},
>       publisher  = {Addison Wesley},
>       title      = {The C++ Programming Language},
>       year       = 1992
>     }
>
> here it says much less, with no attempt to
> explain what actually "inline" means, still, it
> seems to contradict what you say, because it
> says the keyword inline is a "hint to the
> compiler" to generate the code inline rather
> than have the function called the usual way
> (page 124).

I was about to say "I can do this all night",
but then I'd be a lier because I'm running out
of C++ books. This is the last one

    @book{small-c-how-to-program,
      author     = {H M Deitel and P J Deitel},
      ISBN       = {0-13-185758-4},
      publisher  = {Pearson},
      title      = {Small C++ How to Program},
      year       = 2005
    }

and it says virtually the same thing: "inline"
advices the compiler to "generate a copy of the
function's code in place" rather than the usual
call. (It also says the compiler can choose not
to do this; page 246.)

But I'm not saying you are wrong. I was once
~fluent in *writing* C++, but I didn't claim
then, and certainly do not claim now, to
understand what goes on under the hood.

To young, promising programmers, two pieces of
advice:

1) don't be a professional programmer; and

2) stay away from these books:

%%%% C++

@book{small-c-how-to-program,
  author     = {H M Deitel and P J Deitel},
  ISBN       = {0-13-185758-4},
  publisher  = {Pearson},
  title      = {Small C++ How to Program},
  year       = 2005
}

@book{c-programming-language,
  author     = {Bjarne Stroustrup},
  ISBN       = {0-201-53992-6},
  publisher  = {Addison Wesley},
  title      = {The C++ Programming Language},
  year       = 1992
}

@book{cpp-direkt,
    author     = {Jan Skansholm},
    ISBN       = {91-44-47931-X},
    publisher  = {Studentlitteratur},
    title      = {C++ direkt},
    year       = 1996
}

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