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C++20: consteval and constexpr Functions

by Daniel Lemire

From the article:

In modern C++, you can declare a function as ‘constexpr’, meaning that you state explicitly that the function may be executed at compile time.

The constexpr qualifier is not magical. There may not be any practical difference in practice between an inline function and a constexpr function, as in this example:

inline int f(int x) {
  return x+1;
}

constexpr int fc(int x) {
  return x+1;
}