Usefulness of the “inline” feature

Question

There\'s two things about inlining:

• The inline keyword will be ignored if the compiler determines that the function cannot be inlined.
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Answer 1

It depends on your environment and what you want to do, so it is really hard to say when inlining is preferrable.

This link has some interesting reading about inlining. And some sound advice (which pretty much boils down to: avoid doing it)