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From: steve@taumet.COM (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: renaming
Message-ID: <228@taumet.COM>
Date: 30 May 90 17:09:44 GMT
References: <18591@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: steve@taumet.UUCP (Stephen Clamage)
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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In article <18591@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> budd@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Budd) writes:
>	void gak(int i) { bar::geek(i); }
>introduce[s] the run-time overhead of one additional function invocation.

I know of no C++ compiler which would not inline this member function,
and it seems unlikely that any ever would refuse to do so.  It seems
unnecessary to introduce a new language feature, thus complicating *all*
compilers, to make things simpler for users stuck with bad compilers.

If your local C++ compiler won't inline such a simple function (meaning
no overhead whatsoever), try to get another one.  Such a compiler is
bound to be woefully deficient in other ways.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com