Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On m?n, 2009-11-30 at 07:06 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I thought one problem was that inline is a suggestion that the compiler > > can ignore, while macros have to be implemented as specified. > > Sure, but one could argue that a compiler that doesn't support inline > usefully is probably not the sort of compiler that you use for compiling > performance-relevant software anyway. We can support such systems in a > degraded way for historical value and evaluation purposes as long as > it's pretty much free, like we support systems without working int8.
The issue is that many compilers will take "inline" as a suggestion and decide if it is worth-while to inline it --- I don't think it is inlined unconditionally by any modern compilers. Right now we think we are better at deciding what should be inlined than the compiler --- of course, we might be wrong, and it would be good to performance test this. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
