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I'm surprised there's no way to say 'I really mean it, inline this function' for the stuff that didn't inline because it was too big. The baseline whitespace c

I'm surprised there's no way to say 'I really mean it, inline this function' for the stuff that didn't inline because it was too big. The baseline whitespace count/search operation seems like it would be MUCH faster if you vectorized it with SIMD, but I can understand that being out of scope for the author.

mgaunard 3y ago
Of course you can force-inline.
- cbarrick 3y ago
  Obviously you can manually inline functions. That's what happened in the article. The comment is about having a directive or annotation to make the compiler inline the function for you, which Go does not have. IMO, the pre-inline code was cleaner to me. It's a shame that the compiler could not optimize it. There was once a proposal for this, but it's really against Go's design as a language. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21536 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21536
  - mgaunard 3y ago
    You can in any systems programming language. Go is mostly a toy language for cloud people.
    - cbarrick 3y ago
      > toy language You may be surprised to hear that Go is used in a ton of large scale critical systems.
      - mgaunard 3y ago
        I don't consider cloud technology a critical system.