DIP56 Provide pragma to control function inlining

[Joseph Cassman]

On Sunday, 23 February 2014 at 13:07:27 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> 23-Feb-2014 16:57, Walter Bright пишет:
>> On 2/23/2014 4:25 AM, Tove wrote:
>>> The DIP should probably specify what happens if inlining 
>>> fails,
>>> i.e. generate a compilation error.
>>
>> I suspect that may cause problems, because different compilers 
>> will have
>> different inlining capabilities. I think it should be a 
>> 'recommendation'
>> to the compiler.
>
> It's going to be near useless if it doesn't make sure inlining 
> happened.
> Part of the reason for forced inline is always inlining some 
> core primitives, even in debug builds.
>
> The other point is what Vladimir mentioned - we already doing 
> micro-optimization, hence it better error out then turn a blind 
> eye on our tinkering. I wouldn't not like to ever have to get 
> down and look at ASM for every function just to make sure it 
> was inlined.

That is most likely when I would make use of the concept too. And 
a message from the compiler in its output telling me when such an 
inline request failed would be helpful.

Joseph