From kde-core-devel  Sun Mar 07 09:40:05 2004
From: "Dr. Juergen Pfennig" <info () j-pfennig ! de>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:40:05 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: (1) how to hide helper classes  (2) KDE_NO_INLINE missing?
Message-Id: <200403071040.06420.info () j-pfennig ! de>
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On Sunday 07 March 2004 09:38, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> This probably sounds stupid, but: Why not simply make the function not
> inline instead?

In that part of the world were 95% of all programmers work the compiler can be 
very aggressive with inlining. It grabs almost everything (think about dtors 
of long-lived classes or error handling code) and makes the program larger if 
you don't give it some hints.

Also for that compiler there is little need to place something in a .cpp file 
- you better put things in header files there. The .cpp files are there 
mostly for "historic" reasons.

Their linker is quite smart (and must be, see .cpp files above) - it optimizes 
away whatever is not used or exported (from a DLL).

Your Juergen