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The C++ semantics of `inline` dictate that such functions might be defined in multiple translation units. As with all other functions, they must have the same address in all TUs. Because of this, the compiler emits `inline` functions as weak symbols, which the dynamic linker can then resolve to the same address everywhere. This rule is responsible for a significant overhead at startup, as such lookups happen by name. Namely, 86'000 of the 114'000 by-name symbol lookups when loading LibWeb can be attributed to this. Most of these are only ever defined in a single object, making this even more pointless. As nothing in our code relies on either ELF symbol interposition rules or function address equality, we can use the -fvisibility-inlines-hidden escape hatch, which causes this rule to be disregarded. As the symbols are now hidden, no load-time symbol lookup is needed. This flag is used without issues in other large C++ codebases like Chromium and LLVM. Some relevant light reading, suggested by Nico: - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/i-didnt-order-that-so-why-is-it-on-my-bill-episode-1.html - https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/cs258/ABI/UlrichDrepper-How-To-Write-Shared-Libraries.pdf - https://blog.llvm.org/2018/11/30-faster-windows-builds-with-clang-cl_14.html - https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect-Options.html#index-fvisibility-inlines-hidden |
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