What does 'inline' mean?

[Stefan Koch]

On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 10:19:44 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 00:36:18 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> for instance, if you have a leaf function (does not allocate 
>> any stack memory), it's only possible to make calls from that 
>> function where the callee is inlined... and if inlining fails, 
>> your caller will lose its no-stack-frame requirement.
>
> Out of interest: What does implementing a function without a 
> stack frame enable?

Better predictability of memory access patterns for example.
Knowing that you can't have a stack overflow.