C++ Inline Functions

Inline functions

Are a C++ enhancement designed to speed up programs

The primary distinction between normal functions and inline functions

Is not in how you code them

But in how the C++ compiler incorporates them into a program

To understand the distinction between inline functions and normal functions

You need to peer more deeply into a program’s innards than we have [...]

Strings

A string

Is a series of characters stored in consecutive bytes of memory

C++ has two ways of dealing with strings

The first, taken from C and often called a C-style string, is the first one this page examines
Later, we will discuss an alternative method based on a string class library

The idea of a series of characters stored [...]