DI Generation Needs your Help!

[Alvaro]

El 14/03/2012 22:13, Adam Wilson escribió:
 > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:45:13 -0700, Alvaro <alvaroDotSegura at gmail.com>
 > wrote:
 >
 > The problem is that in DI generation, at least as near as I can tell, D
 > has now idea how big a function is during DI generation. In my
 > experience it was keeping all functions not just small ones. And frankly
 > DI generation is targeted at library builders who are well aware of the
 > inlining trade-offs. And then comes the question of how do you define
 > "small functions" to an adequately technical level.>

OK, I rechecked. DMD -H is at least omitting function bodies containing 
foreach() loops (and maybe other cases). Maybe that led me to assume things.

AFAIK some C++ compilers use heuristics (don't really know what that is 
exactly) to decide what "small functions" deserved automatic inlining.

And well, C++ library builders are aware of that and usually keep the 
small functions they want inlined in the header file (e.g. in the class 
declaration). I can see a lot of cases where D libraries would benefit 
from allowing some of their functions to be inlined. Think of 
@properties, they're often pretty short.

Other than this detail, the improvement in DI generation is very welcome.