Steve is talking about the "link-time inlining" (see the original quote) which is not supported by any mainstream C compiler that I know. Inlining in the same

Steve is talking about the "link-time inlining" (see the original quote) which is not supported by any mainstream C compiler that I know. Inlining in the same translation unit is possible though its application is too limited to explain why C is faster than dynamically-typed languages.