text_combined: matthew french mfrench42yahoocouk gary coady wrote oops tend feel like times tend feel extremely good compilation tools tools able inlining optimisation far better could thats theory anyway theres always tradeoff inlining speed memory bloat may sometimes tradeoff swap starts getting involved something often annoys programmers spend hours inlining code relying optimisation tools improve performance best performance improvement obtained fixing algorithm function calls get made rarely optimising often makes sense produces illegable code nonsense algorithms inlining help functions get called frequently small string manipulation routines small part applications one example frequently see people optimising database function call database accesses involve many abstraction layers millions instruction cycles trying save instruction cycles would cost saving say 5 seconds 20 hours simple hashmap cache common data without compiler inline optimisations turn 20 hours 10 minutes matthew really writing code __________________________________________________ yahoo everything youll ever need one web page news sport email music charts httpukmyyahoocom irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie fri 9 aug 2002 101433 0100 ilug slashdot ew dijkstra humor