inlining or not inlining...

[Brad Roberts]

On 2/10/2011 10:53 PM, so wrote:
>> While in isolation that's a good idea, how far should it be taken? Should the compiler emit information on which
>> variables wound up in which registers, and why? What about other of the myriad of compiler optimizations?
> 
> Isn't Inlining by far the most important (most practical) optimization among those that actually we can control?
> A few times i have seen comparisons here to similar languages and in most of them the inlining was the reason (only) for
> the inferior performance.
> I agree it would be awesome if the compilers had the ability to chose the best method, but comparisons show sometimes
> the opposite, i don't know maybe they are hand-picked for some reason.

Nope.. that'd be choosing the 'right' algorithm.