System programming in D (Was: The God Language)

[Walter Bright]

On 12/30/2011 6:35 PM, so wrote:
> With or without @inline i know fun should/will get folded away, then why should
> i pay for the function call?

Because if the function did anything useful, the overhead of the function call 
is insignificant.

I don't think that dealing with large, complex functions that do nothing merits 
a language extension.