Inlining of immediately called function literals

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On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 07:48:18 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 07:01:52 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> "Dicebot"  wrote in message 
>> news:xpjsskmamagclzoiwtxb at forum.dlang.org...
>>
>>> I can't PR but there were one by Kenji that did inline of 
>>> such calls in the frontend providing 100% gurantee whatever 
>>> backend is used.
>>
>> There is no 100% guarantee, the frontend's inliner is not 
>> capable of inlining the majority of function calls.  The only 
>> guarantee is that it will try to inline the lambda whether or 
>> not the -inline switch is used.
>
> Too bad... If it was guaranteed, there would then be a compiler 
> independent way to force inlining. Is there a chance that the 
> limits to inlining in DMD will ever be removed?

IIRC the core reason is that expression nodes in the AST cannot 
contain statements. Isn't it possible to create a "bridge" node 
type that is allowed to appear in expressions, but may also 
contain statements?