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Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Aug 25, 2012 22:50 UTC (Sat) by lindahl (subscriber, #15266)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by daglwn
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Treatment of "inline" is the same as how compilers treat "register" declarations and loop-unrolling pragmas -- after a few years of cpu evolution and compiler improvements, these hints are always wrong.

And those pesky customers who care about performance expect the compiler to DTRT despite all the bogus "inline", "register" declarations, and loop-unrolling pragmas scattered all over their code.


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