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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:57:26 +1100
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On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:49 -0800, Carl Love wrote:
> Christoph:
> 
> In our earlier work on the PPU profiling patch, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> said that we should remove macros that are only used once and just put
> the actual code in.  That is why the macros were removed. 

Heh... there is a balance to be found... In some cases, inline functions
might be better too.

Ben.