linux-kernel; inlines

[brad]

I'm addicted to reading the linux-kernel list. There's a big thread going on about changing the meaning of "inline" in the kernel tree to mean "if gcc4 wants to" instead of the historical "always-inline!" that was required due to gcc3 quirks. Then introducing a new "__always_inline" to actually mean __attribute__((always_inline)), for the few

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[wolf550e]

I agree, compilers are almost always better at optimization than programmers, especially with code that gets compiled on so many different architectures, but I wanted to point out that the argument that modern processors are so smart is not going to be correct for too long - newer architectures sacrifice a lot of out-of-order optimization logic (like scheduling and branch prediction) to cram more (simpler) execution cores into a target silicon size.