For the lulz: ddmd vs libdparse lexer timings

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Brian Schott"  wrote in message 
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> Now with more copy-paste inlining!
>
> http://i.imgur.com/D5IAlvl.png
>
> I'm glad I could get this kind of speed up, but not happy with how ugly 
> the changes were.

Nice!  How far would @forceinline go to getting the same results without the 
ugly?

I don't expect you to do this, but what features would ddmd's lexer need 
before you could entirely replace libdparse's with it?