Discussion

The Cost of Indirection in Rust

bombela: I think this long post is saying that if you are afraid that moving code behind a function call will slow it down, you can look at the machine code and run a benchmark to convince yourself that it is fine?

slopinthebag: Cool article but I got turned off by the obvious AI-isms which, because of my limited experience with Rust, has me wondering how true any of the article actually is.

Scubabear68: A function call is not necessarily an indirection. Basic premise of the blog is wrong on its face.

alilleybrinker: Did you read the article? The author makes exactly that point.

Sytten: Also to note that the inline directive is optional and the compiler can decide to ignore it (even if you put always if I remember)