System programming in D (Was: The God Language)

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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:44:12 +0200, Alex Rønne Petersen  
<xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1. D needs a way to force inlining. The compiler can, at best, do  
> heuristics. If D wants to cater to systems programmers -- that is,  
> programmers who *know their shit* -- it needs advanced features like  
> this. Same reason we have __gshared, for example.
>
> - Alex

The legitimate "D performs so bad in my example" posts appeared in this  
forum
almost always ended up with the conclusion that D's lack a controlled  
inline mechanism.