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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:46:51 -0800
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9,
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The more you optimize, the better the odds you slow your program down.
 Optimization adds instructions and often data, in one of the
paradoxes of engineering.  In time, then, what you gain by
"optimizing" increases cache pressure and slows the whole thing down.

C++ inlines a lot because microbenchmarks improve, but inline every
modest function in a big program and you make the binary much bigger
and blow the i-cache.

-rob