Home Will template function typedef specifier be properly inlined when creating each instance of template function?
 Have made function that operates on several streams of data in same time, creates output result which is put to destination stream. It has been put huge amount of time to optimize performance of this function (openmp, intrinsics, and etc...). And it performs beautifully. There is alot math involved here, needless to say very long function. Now I want to implement in same function with math replacement code for each instance of this without writing each version of this function. Where I want to differentiate between different instances of this function using only #defines or inlined function (code has to be inlined in each version). Went for templates, but templates allow only type specifiers, and realized that #defines can't be used here. Remaining solution would be inlined math functions, so simplified idea is to create header like this: 'alm_quasimodo.h': #pragma once typedef struct ALM_DATA { int l, t, r, b; int scan; BYTE* data; } ALM_DATA; typedef BYTE (*MATH_FX)(BYTE&, BYTE&); // etc inline BYTE math_a1(BYTE& A, BYTE& B){ return ((BYTE)((B > A) ? B:A)); } inline BYTE math_a2(BYTE& A, BYTE& B){ return ((BYTE)(255 - ((long)((long)(255 - A) * (255 - B)) >> 8))); } inline BYTE math_a3(BYTE& A, BYTE& B){ return ((BYTE)((B < 128)?(2*(((long)A>>1)+64))*((float)B/255):(255-(2*(255-(((long)A>>1)+64))*(float)(255-B)/255)))); } // etc template inline int const template_math_av (MATH math, ALM_DATA& a, ALM_DATA& b) { // ultra simplified version of very complex code for (int y = a.t; y <= a.b; y++) { int yoffset = y * a.scan; for (int x = a.l; x <= a.r; x++) { int xoffset = yoffset + x; a.data[xoffset] = math(a.data[xoffset], b.data[xoffset]); } } return 0; } ALM_API int math_caller(int condition, ALM_DATA& a, ALM_DATA& b);  and math_caller is defined in 'alm_quasimodo.cpp' as follows: #include "stdafx.h" #include "alm_quazimodo.h" ALM_API int math_caller(int condition, ALM_DATA& a, ALM_DATA& b) { switch(condition) { case 1: return template_math_av(math_a1, a, b); break; case 2: return template_math_av(math_a2, a, b); break; case 3: return template_math_av(math_a3, a, b); break; // etc } return -1; }  Main concern here is optimization, mainly in-lining of MATH function code, and not to break existing optimizations of original code. Without writing each instance of function for specific math operation, of course ;) So does this template inlines properly all math functions? And any suggestions how to optimize this function template? If nothing, thanks for reading this lengthy question.