How much overhead is there in calling a function in C++?

Question

A lot of literature talks about using inline functions to \"avoid the overhead of a function call\". However I haven\'t seen quantifiable data. What is the actual overhead o

Answer 1

Each new function requires a new local stack to be created. But the overhead of this would only be noticeable if you are calling a function on every iteration of a loop over a very large number of iterations.