inlining or not inlining...

[spir]

On 02/11/2011 09:33 AM, Jim wrote:
>> Regardless, I would _hope_ that the compiler would be smart enough to make
>> >  intelligent choices about inlining. That's probably one of those areas that can
>> >  always be improved however.
>
> I also think that this decision should be left to the compiler.
>
> The inline keyword was deemed useful for the same reason that symbols had to be declared before their use (causing the C/C++ header hell) -- it's easier to implement such a compiler.

Agreed; but what about having the compiler tell you, on demand, "func 'f' at 
line #l in module 'm' was not inlined" ?

Denis
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