On inlining in D libraries

[Dmitry Olshansky]

15-Sep-2013 23:05, Andrej Mitrovic пишет:
> On 9/15/13, monarch_dodra <monarchdodra at gmail.com> wrote:
>> By simply making them templates, I can improve the performance of
>> functions such as "split on ascii white" by 2 to 3 (!).
>
Yes, yes and yes. I think many of the performance issues of Phobos are 
rooted there.

I'm of the opinion that the user must not suffer because of a undecided 
situation with inlining in the toolchain (all of them).

> Speaking of which, I think the following special case should be allowed:
>
> -----
> void foo()() { }
>
> void main()
> {
>      auto x = &foo;  // NG
> }
> -----
>
> Then maybe we won't even break anyone's code.
>

Providing either this special case for empty argument templates seems to 
be a small price to help this ugly situation.

That is unless compiler devs agree with the following observation and 
see a way to get there in short-term:

 > I *thought* that the intended behavior is:
 > a) Have source - compile from source
 > b) Don't have source (*.di files) - link in objects

Which is something nobody clarified yet.
Well Johannes spoke for GDC by noting that there is no notion to support 
that in the current frontend-backend dialog.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky