Bloaty says it saved 10 kB in Debug build of MagnumGL:
VM SIZE FILE SIZE
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[ = ] 0 .debug_info +1.59Ki +0.0%
+0.4% +1.50Ki .text +1.50Ki +0.4%
[ = ] 0 .debug_str +409 +0.0%
[ = ] 0 .debug_line +276 +0.1%
[ = ] 0 .debug_abbrev +20 +0.0%
-28.6% -2 [LOAD [RX]] -2 -28.6%
[ = ] 0 [Unmapped] -4.28Ki -41.0%
-22.7% -9.23Ki .rodata -9.23Ki -22.7%
-0.8% -7.73Ki TOTAL -9.73Ki -0.1%
And 4 kB in Release:
VM SIZE FILE SIZE
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+1.1% +3.44Ki .text +3.44Ki +1.1%
+1.7% +1.39Ki .eh_frame +1.39Ki +1.7%
[ = ] 0 [Unmapped] +656 +51%
-25.5% -9.47Ki .rodata -9.47Ki -25.5%
-0.7% -4.64Ki TOTAL -4.00Ki -0.4%
That's not negative, so I guess that's good. This change is of course
more significant in the context of a minimal WebGL build, where the exe
can be as little as 50 kB -- there 4 kB is almost 10% of the size.
This is in line with how the other APIs are named (for example
ObjectDataXD have instance type and instance). This would be very hard
to change later without breaking backwards compatibility, so I'm doing
it now, until the animation APIs get widely used.
This reduces the templated code a bit, as I moved the index assertion to
the *.cpp file. Also the function now returns a reference to avoid
needless copies -- it's a view, but still quite a heavy view.
Vladimír Vondruš