Re: [PATCH] Inline vfat_strnicmp()

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 00:55:48 EST


On 31 July 2003 18:07, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> writes:
>
> > Yes, but some future version would.
> >
> > Since there is no substantial wins in hunting down
> > such statics, and there is some risk of code bloat when
> > big inlined statics get called from more that one callsite,
> > and it will be automatically handled by smarter compiler someday,
> > I think it makes perfect sense to avoid doing this.
>
> Could you tell me, if compiler does it in future? I'll gladly kill
> that inline.

I can't be 100.00% sure it will happen. I'd say 98.234235% ;)

Andrew Morton kills extra large inlines, and you are creating them :(
That's not ok. Just leave those poor static functions alone
until compiler will do them, all at once.
There are lots of other stuff to do in the kernel source.

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vda
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