Thread: When to inline your *tors

In your original post you don't seem to mention a case where inlining ctors and dtors is detrimental. Inlining does have drawbacks, but you can get most of the benefits by doing nothing.

I rarely if ever bother to inline constructors or destructors simply because if I wrote them, they have work to do, and the overhead from a function call is probably the last thing I worry about when I go to optimize.

Originally Posted by citizen

In your original post you don't seem to mention a case where inlining ctors and dtors is detrimental. Inlining does have drawbacks, but you can get most of the benefits by doing nothing.

I rarely if ever bother to inline constructors or destructors simply because if I wrote them, they have work to do, and the overhead from a function call is probably the last thing I worry about when I go to optimize.

That's because the reasons why you shouldn't use inlining for *tors are classic problems, and beyond the scope of this thread. I wanted to deal with situation where inlining is definitely worthwhile (with certain specified exceptions).