pragma(inline, true) not very useful in its current state?

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 24 Sep 2015 9:46 pm, "Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d" <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On 9/24/2015 8:47 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
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>> What were the reasons behind this decision?
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> The trouble is the compiler does inlining as a top down traversal,
whereas forcing inline with no -inline would be a bottom up thing. The
compiler could always do the top down traversal, but it would make
compilations slower, whether any force inlines exist or not.

Isn't this just a problem with dmd's inliner/inlining strategy? (Mixed in
with its need for speed)
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