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

You may not want to inline everywhere it is possible. This could increase the size of your binaries too much. You may have a select few functions that aren't used very much that inlining would allow to run faster without increasing the size of your bits significantly

Answer 2

Manual use of inline might be useful on older compilers or less sophisticated compilers (such as compilers for embedded development). If you're using visual studio, I don't think you typically need to use the inline keyword at all.