Right, inlines are hard to beat, and they are not part of the C standard (which is kind of mind boggling, I mean . . . honestly, what year is it?). Still, the

Right, inlines are hard to beat, and they are not part of the C standard (which is kind of mind boggling, I mean . . . honestly, what year is it?). Still, the benefit of inlines diminishes as the size of the inlined functions increases (you start paying penalties for extra cache lines full of code, and the percentage of time in function call overhead gets small in a hurry). The linker can get into the inlining game, too, by the way, if the win is sufficiently big. I have scars to prove it. :-)