Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:34:09 09/23/03
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On September 23, 2003 at 11:28:52, Michel Langeveld wrote: >On September 23, 2003 at 10:51:35, Uri Blass wrote: > >>one of the optimization that I do it inline every suitable because I found in >>the past that it made my program faster. >> >>When I used maximal level warning I found hundreds of warning of the following >>type: >> >>warning C4711: function 'fill_dir_white_small' selected for automatic inline >>expansion >> >>I wonder if it is better not to do it because I found when I used maximal >>warning that I get warning for every automatic inline. >> >>I believe that there are functions that it is bad idea to inline like the >>function to generate promotion because they are called rarely and I guess that >>the program is slower because it is better to have smaller code for functions >>that are used rarely. >> >>A possible idea is to print the list of all the inlined functions and use >>force_inline only for part of them that are called often(I do not know about a >>way to tell the program not to inline a specific fuction when I use inline every >>suitable). >> >>Uri > >All is true. With a bit tweakling you can get sometimes 15% extra performance >out of a chess program. > >I do performance measurements for each function with and without inline to see >what works the best. If I restructure my program a lot because of algorithm and >structure rewrites then it can happen that the process has to be done all over >again. Do you do it for every function? I think that functions that are done rarely or function that are never done during the search are obvious functions not to inline. Uri
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