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Help => General => Topic started by: dydya-stepa on February 28, 2012, 02:11:09 pm

Title: should i use inline functions?
Post by: dydya-stepa on February 28, 2012, 02:11:09 pm

should i use inline function or the compiler will take care of it?

i noticed sfml code doesn't use it a lot

Title: should i use inline functions?
Post by: Serapth on February 28, 2012, 03:30:57 pm

As a general rule, leave such decisions to the compiler until you have reason not to.

Title: should i use inline functions?
Post by: Nexus on February 28, 2012, 08:01:53 pm

Serapth is right. I actually never use the inline keyword unless something must be in the header because of linkage reasons.

Generally, writing function definitions in .cpp files has the following advantages:

• Changes in the implementation don't require clients to recompile
• Less code must be read everywhere the header is used, speeding up compilation progress
• Functionality on which the implementation depends can be included in the .cpp file, leading to fewer dependencies in the interface