# Is there a way to tell if a function was \`@inline\`’d?

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**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-tell-if-a-function-was-inline-d/54392 "2021-02-01T16:10:13Z")\
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Is there a way to tell if a function was `@inline`’d?

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answer from Matt Bauman on Slack

> Best way I’m aware of is to `@code_typed` an outer function and see if the inner function disappears when you go from `optimize=false` to `true` .