force inline/not-inline

[Brandon Ragland via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 19:13:49 UTC, jerro wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 March 2012 at 22:53:58 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> I just started writing an emulator in D for some fun; I needed 
>> an
>> application to case-study aggressive performance 
>> characteristics in
>> hot-loop situations.
>> I know this has come up time and time again, but I just want 
>> to put it out
>> there again... if I were shipping this product, I would NEED 
>> forceinline +
>> force-not-inline.
>
> You could use GDC and @attribute("forceinline") and
> @attribute("noinline"). But I agree it would be nice to have
> something like that as a part of the language.

Don't mean to resurrect an old thread but was working n a project 
to replace a few C programs today, that are time-sensitive and 
process fairly large batches of files, for live-use.

Was looking for a way to inline a few function calls that could 
shave a few seconds off my run time today, ended up using GDC 
attribute flags but was hoping the language had this feature.

Though I understand it intelligently decides, sometimes it 
doesn't do so well.

Case in point might be a call that at first glance doesn't get 
called often, but when in production, gets called thousands of 
times. That could be massive savings if it were able to force 
inline.

-Brandon