2) Not inlining inb() and friend reduce the bloat but then you further
impact performances on CPUs which are generally many order of magnitude
slower than current desktop machines.
I don't buy this one. You are saying that the overhead of a procedure
call is larger than the overhead of going out over the I/O bus to
touch a device?
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