In article <3fe2128a@news.povray.org> , Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde>  
wrote:

>> No, only the very common bad programming habit of placing template
>> implementation code inside classes instead outside causes template code to
>> be inlined (also a compiler is *not* required to inline anything!).
>>
> (Yes but good compilers do when told so...)

No, good compilers will have mechanisms t detect where inlining will be
beneficial that are more intelligent than any user can be 99% of the time.
They will also be able to inline functions not marked explicitly or
implicitly as inline.

    Thorsten

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