One thing that wasn't mentioned in the article that I wished it did was the size of the compiled binary with and without final. Only reason I would expect the f

One thing that wasn't mentioned in the article that I wished it did was the size of the compiled binary with and without final. Only reason I would expect the final version to be slower is that we are emitting more code because of inlining and that is resulting in a larger portion of instruction cache misses. Also, now that I think of it, they should have run the code under perf and compared the stats.