On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, ;P wrote:
>> You cannot inline every function.
>
>with..for instance, what's inlining? i'm guessing that it somehow marks
>certain functions as being used more often and thus makes them faster or
>more efficient..is this accurate?
Instead of making the code set up a new stack and jump to the function
(because jumping is expensive), the resulting assembly from the 'inline'
function is simply placed right into the calling function.
>one thing i'd suggest to improve stock circle is perhaps changing the
>command array into a hash table..has this been discussed before? i know
>that this was done for at least one other mud base that i looked at..
That hasn't been changed because people don't type fast enough for that to
cause any significant slowdown. Although if anyone has a clean
implementation for it, it may be considered.
A lot of things aren't in because they haven't been suggested or weren't
quite what was wanted.
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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