Yet another strike against the current AA implementation

[Daniel Keep]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-04-27 00:50:23 -0400, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> said:
> 
>> Output:
>> Direct:  2343
>> Virtual:  5695
>> opApply:  3014
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Isn't there room for optimisation on the compiler side though? I mean,
> the compiler could inline opApply, and while doing so it could notice
> that the delegate is constant and inline it too. I suspect that adding
> this optimisation would put opApply at the same performance level than
> ranges.

Inlining does not automatically make things faster.  Case in point:
downs' raytracer stacy actually slows down when you inline certain
parts.  The penalty of not fitting in cache was overwhelming the penalty
from using virtual methods.

  -- Daniel