Why is inlining considered faster than a function call?

Question

Now, I know it\'s because there\'s not the overhead of calling a function, but is the overhead of calling a function really that heavy (and worth the bloat of having it inli

Answer 1

One other potential side effect of the jump is that you might trigger a page fault, either to load the code into memory the first time, or if it's used infrequently enough to get paged out of memory later.