On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:27:53AM -0400, Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 07:21 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> > There is the off chance that this is not done for the special case of a
> > totally empty subroutine, but then again that hardly sounds like a case
> > worth bothering to optimize for.
> 
> I'd have to agree, and am now curious: What would be the point of trying
> to optimize a call to a completely empty subroutine? Wouldn't it be
> better to just get rid of the call completely? 

You might have a system with callbacks, and sometimes set the callback
to a no-op.

I agree that optimising an empty function probably isn't very important,
though I don't see why you wouldn't want to optimise other very small
functions.

Chris
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