Inlining Ref Functions

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Bill Baxter (wbaxter at gmail.com)'s article
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:36 PM, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The fact that DMD does not inline functions with ref parameters has come
> up
> > several times deep in threads on this NG before, but it's never really
> > received proper attention.  After changing a few swaps in performance-c
> ritical
> > areas of my code to "manually inlined" swaps and seeing significant speed
> ups,
> > I'm kind of curious what the rationale is for not inlining functions w/ r
> ef
> > params.  Is there a good technical reason for this or is it simply a ma
> tter of
> > having higher priorities?  Is inlining functions w/ ref params on the "
> to do
> > eventually" list?
> +1 on bumping up the priority on it.
> Even if it it can't be made to work in every case, if it could at
> least be made to work in simple cases like swap() then it would be
> great boon for DMD benchmarks.
> --bb

Just to clarify:  I actually don't think this is a terribly high priority item.
Now that D2 is apparently pretty much feature complete, I'd rather bug fixes for
functionality bugs than relatively mild performance bugs.  My question was purely
out of curiosity.