Study: build times for D programs

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 19:36:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> That was my point. -inline seems to be pretty much identical 
> between the two
> compilers, and if the inlining is done in the frontend, then 
> that makes sense.
> Thinking on it, it makes sense to me that it would be in the 
> frontend, but I
> don't know where it actually is.

Ah, okay, I see what you meant. But no, as far as I'm aware, GDC 
doesn't use DMD's inliner, but rather relies on the GCC one. LDC 
does the same, we entirely disable DMD's inlining code, it turned 
out to just be not worth it.

David