inlining
Speech parts
1. inlining - Noun
2. inlining - Verb
Meaning
inlining
present participle of inline
inlining (plural inlinings)
(computing, programming) An instance of in-line expansion.
Examples
Any mutual recursion between two procedures can be converted to direct recursion by inlining the code of one procedure into the other.
We present performance results for an implementation of these inlining heuristics in the Jalapeño dynamic optimizing compiler.
This makes sense: by pushing previously inlined resources, we still get the benefits of inlining (less round trips from the browser) but without the drawback of not being able to cache those resources individually in the browser cache.
Although statements could be implemented with function calls they are almost always implemented with code inlining.
Generally, inlining is useful in performance-critical code that makes a large number of calls to small procedures.
Standard declarations to optimize compilation (such as function inlining or type specialization) are proposed in the language specification.