On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 8:52 AM Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > > Gregory P. Smith schrieb am 15.11.18 um 01:03: > > From my point of view: A static inline function is a much nicer modern code > > style than a C preprocessor macro. > > It's also slower to compile, given that function inlining happens at a much > later point in the compiler pipeline than macro expansion. The C compiler > won't even get to see macros in fact, whereas whether to inline a function > or not is a dedicated decision during the optimisation phase based on > metrics collected in earlier stages. For something as ubiquitous as > Py_INCREF/Py_DECREF, it might even be visible in the compilation times.
Have you measured this? I had the opposite intuition, that macros on average will be slower to compile because they increase the amount of code that the frontend has to process. But I've never checked... -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
