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Re:Going Faster by Duplicating Code by maccard on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:08AM (#37842056)
Msvc treats inline as a hint [0] , GCC is ambiguous [1] but I read it as utilising the hint. My under of clang [2] is that it tries to match GCC.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/ob-inl...

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html

[2] https://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html

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Re:Going Faster by Duplicating Code by rileymat2 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:06AM (#37843022)
What the OP is saying is that it has a use to satisfy (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/definition) and in that case it is not optional and not ignored by the compiler. Whether it will "actually" inline it is another matter, that is optional.
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