title: Benefits of inline functions in C++?
body: <p>What is the advantages/disadvantages of using inline functions in C++? I see that it only increases performance for the code that the compiler outputs, but with today's optimized compilers, fast CPUs, huge memory etc. (not like in the 1980&lt; where memory was scarce and everything had to fit in 100KB of memory) what advantages do they really have today?</p>