Perl5 has (unfortunately) no macro system.

Maybe codefilters (see Filter::Simple) were meant to replace them, but I don't recommend their use.

Anyway perl knows the term "inlining" for subs but they are restricted to constant return values only (see Constant Functions)

An other approach would be dynamic code generation with a template-system and eval.

One more could be to use labels and gotos to avoid the function overhead. (you can also goto directly into a functionbody, but you have to take care by your self how to get back to the caller ...)

Anyway perl is not meant for these kinds of optimizations, the original concept was to delegate time critical tasks to embedded c code (see perlxs)

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE:added some links

In reply to Re: Perl keyword like the C/C++ keyword 'inline' by LanX
in thread Perl keyword like the C/C++ keyword 'inline' by sadarax

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