Re: HAVE_INLINE (Re: [gnugo-devel] engine/influence.c (and DFA))

[Arend Bayer]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Marco Scheurer wrote:

> Like loop unrolling, inlining functions can have adverse effect on the
> cache hit rate, and should be used only for small functions.

Well for a function as liberty_of_string in board.c (one of the most
frequently called functions at all), I'd be quite optimistic that it
would have a positive effect.

Arend


int
liberty_of_string(int pos, int str)
{
  ASSERT_ON_BOARD1(pos);
  ASSERT_ON_BOARD1(str);
  if (IS_STONE(board[pos]))
    return 0;

  return neighbor_of_string(pos, str);
}