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@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ very often is not. Abundant use of the inline keyword leads to a much bigger | |||
698 | kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger | 698 | kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger |
699 | icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory | 699 | icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory |
700 | available for the pagecache. Just think about it; a pagecache miss causes a | 700 | available for the pagecache. Just think about it; a pagecache miss causes a |
701 | disk seek, which easily takes 5 miliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles | 701 | disk seek, which easily takes 5 milliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles |
702 | that can go into these 5 miliseconds. | 702 | that can go into these 5 milliseconds. |
703 | 703 | ||
704 | A reasonable rule of thumb is to not put inline at functions that have more | 704 | A reasonable rule of thumb is to not put inline at functions that have more |
705 | than 3 lines of code in them. An exception to this rule are the cases where | 705 | than 3 lines of code in them. An exception to this rule are the cases where |