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[Marcus Meissner]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:51:22AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Jon Griffiths wrote:
> 
> > Size and speed.
> > 
> > The inlined versions are to meant to be used within the variant code,
> > the biggest user being the coercion functions when I get round to
> > updating them (after the low level stuff). The code for the vast
> > majority of conversions is smaller than the code needed to push the
> > args and call the functions, since they are simply casts. Where a
> > common function is used for the conversion of most types the calls
> > can be combined skipping a level of indirection.
> 
> I see, I did not notice the _-versions where inlined. But since
> all uses seem to be in the same file (is this correct), can't
> we just mark the regular ones as extern inline?

Yes, please do.

Newer gccs will use unit optimization and optimize better, regardless of
order of functions.

And/Or place Coerce last in the file ;)

Ciao, Marcus