There appears to be a common misperception that gcc has a magic "make me
faster" speedup option called "inline". While the use of inlines can be
-appropriate (for example as a means of replacing macros, see Chapter 11), it
+appropriate (for example as a means of replacing macros, see Chapter 12), it
very often is not. Abundant use of the inline keyword leads to a much bigger
kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger
icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory
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