• orgoton (2/2) Jan 18 2007 With C++ i used the "inline" keyword. How to I instrument the D compiler...
• BCS (8/11) Jan 18 2007 A quick and dirty way to see what functions /may/ be inlined is to run
• Sean Kelly (8/10) Jan 18 2007 It does this automatically so long as the -inline flag it set when

orgoton <orgoton mindless.com> writes:

With C++ i used the "inline" keyword. How to I instrument the D compiler to
inline a function? If it does this automatically, what are the criteria?

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

orgoton wrote:
 With C++ i used the "inline" keyword. How to I instrument the D compiler to
 inline a function? 

use the -inline command line flag and DMD will start inlineing functions

 If it does this automatically, what are the criteria?

A quick and dirty way to see what functions /may/ be inlined is to run 
DMD with the -H flag. This will generate a "header" file (<filename>.di) 
  that has prototypes for some functions and source for others. IIRC the 
cases with source are candidates for inlineing.

I seem to recall it amounts to short functions without ASM blocks or 
loops. But I'm sure that's not all and I may be wrong on that.

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

orgoton wrote:
 With C++ i used the "inline" keyword. How to I instrument the D compiler to
 inline a function? If it does this automatically, what are the criteria?

It does this automatically so long as the -inline flag it set when 
compiling.  Any function which has an available implementation at 
compile-time is a candidate for inlining (ie. excluding a C-style 
"header" module as an interface for a pre-compiled library).  At the 
moment, DMD will not inline delegates, functions containing loops, or 
ASM code, but all are eventually candidates with compiler refinements.


Sean