Date: 2014-09-16 02:28 am (UTC)
"Link Time Optimization (LTO) gives GCC the capability of dumping its internal representation (GIMPLE) to disk, so that all the different compilation units that make up a single executable can be optimized as a single module. This expands the scope of inter-procedural optimizations to encompass the whole program (or, rather, everything that is visible at link time)."

And C++ inlines "generics" on source code level, as you mentioned.
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