On Wednesday 13 May 2015 10:25:57 Marc Mutz wrote: > * it exports symbols that don't need exporting: > ** private methods never called from user code > ** methods of private nested structs and classes > ** inline methods > * exporting inline methods makes MSVC call the library implementation in > debug builds > ** a copy of the function is placed in the library even though the library > itself may never use it > ** exported inline functions can no longer be removed > > Thus, exporting the whole class should be the exception, when the implicit > vtable and the typeinfo objects need to be exported, too. Non-polymorphic > classes don't have any of these, so exporting the whole class is a case of > Premature Pessimization.
The drawbacks only appear in debug builds, so is this worth the uglification? -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
