Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

in-line expansion

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables
in---line -ex-pan-sion
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
7
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The replacement by a compiler of a function call with a copy of the entire function body, sometimes used as an optimization.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

in-line expansions (plural) inline expansion (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

inline inlinable

Questions

What does in-line expansion mean?
The replacement by a compiler of a function call with a copy of the entire function body, sometimes used as an optimization.

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