What happened to phobos compile time?

[Patrick Schluter]

On Tuesday, 4 August 2020 at 12:42:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 8/4/20 12:41 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Looking at that change, a few functions were force-inlined. 
> Most of them were trivial.
>
> And I don't think these are ones that are used in a lot of 
> places. Phobos is compiled all-at-once. So you can't explain 
> the slowdown by multiple instances of compilation.
>
> Has anyone profiled to see where the slowdown is? If I remove 
> the pragma(inline) from the two functions T_SHA2_0_15 and 
> T_SHA2_16_79, the compile time comes back to normal.
>
> Looking at uses of those functions I get a total of 80 uses. 
> Considering the compile time goes from 12 seconds on my system 
> to 92 seconds, that's a full second to inline each call. 
> Something doesn't add up, it can't be that bad.
>

Instruction cache thrashing. The bane of overzealous inlining and 
code geenration.