Remon is a responsible library developer. She cares about stability, flexibility and correctness, using whichever tools are presently accessible to achieve those goals. Her authored libraries feature automated testing and extensive documentation; she allots design decisions rationale; she knows her language features and traditions and how to apply them to best effect.

A short post on how variable names can leak out of macros if there is a name collision with a constant. I thought this was a delightful read!

  • @livingcoder
    5•3 hours ago

    This was a great post, but is the last state of the macro actually bad for performance in any way? I get that it’s ugly (and we should only choose to make code less readable like this when there’s actually an issue) but is it worse for runtime performance?

    • TehPersEnglish
      4•2 hours ago

      Adding a single unused function should no effect on runtime performance. The compiler removes dead code during compilation, and there’s no concept at runtime anyway of “creating a function” since it’s just a compile-time construct to group reusable code (generally speaking - yes the pedants will be right when they say functions appear in the compiled output, to some extent).

      Anyway, this can all be tested on Godbolt anyway if you want to verify yourself. Make a function with and without a nested unused function and check the output.