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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: in-lining
Message-ID: <3842@eos.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 22:18:06 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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> Inlining
This is very easily tested.  I wrote a paper about this: Usenix
Supercomputer Workshop Sept. 1988.  Basically, very few machines (compiler)
do this.  No one tests to make certain they do it.  So it tends to
be a lot of hot air.  It seems to get lots of lip service.  I won't
name the compilers which claim to do it but don't.

Another gross generalization from

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