>
>
> Show of hands, please:
>
> How many of you are happy that we have diverted
>
>         - Andy from working on shared libraries,
>         - Robert from working on the Appearance Manager, and
>         - me from working on a 3D game engine
>
> so that we could make empty or almost empty functions work faster?
>

Not me neither.


I don't understand why this code can't go in line. That is the fastest way to
do it, and we are all used to sacrificing elegance for speed where absolutely
necessary..


regards

ian