inlining or not inlining...

[Jim]

spir Wrote:

> On 02/11/2011 09:33 AM, Jim wrote:
> >> Regardless, I would _hope_ that the compiler would be smart enough to make
> >> >  intelligent choices about inlining. That's probably one of those areas that can
> >> >  always be improved however.
> >
> > I also think that this decision should be left to the compiler.
> >
> > The inline keyword was deemed useful for the same reason that symbols had to be declared before their use (causing the C/C++ header hell) -- it's easier to implement such a compiler.
> 
> Agreed; but what about having the compiler tell you, on demand, "func 'f' at 
> line #l in module 'm' was not inlined" ?

I rarely need to go that low-level. My hope is that the compiler will sort this out in the end. Give it some time, or effort to have these optimizations implemented in the compiler.