It is not inline functions, it is simply the fact that Value code is immensely complicated. Really, absolutely totally fucked hard.

Now the reason why it is so hard is not that I wanted to make everybody looking into it feel like idiot. It is because it is doing some really deep shit optimizations. Value is central to U++ and its perfomance and memory requirements affect everything.

For the record, my yesterday's fix was wrong and I have just spent 4 hours fixing it right (and no, single inline functions were not the problem). And this is just for fixing something that probably was not really in need of fixing - it was borderline to invalid use.

I agree that perhaps more comments would help there. Will try...