Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert softmmu-template into normal code

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 20/04/2018 20:35, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> The executable is now larger:
> 
> - before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 9864951 2944592 4371560 17181103        10629af 
> aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64
> 
> - after:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 9892095 2944592 4371560 17208247        10693b7 
> aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64
> 
> By removing flatten we can decrease the overall size, but this might affect 
> perf:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 9849967 2944592 4371560 17166119        105ef27 
> aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64

This does suggest that always_inline is preferrable to flatten...

Paolo