"Robert Clipsham" <rob...@octarineparrot.com> wrote in message news:ist1af$tbj$1...@digitalmars.com... > > As for how well they optimize code, dmd has a state of the art optimizer > from the 90s, or there abouts - the code it generates is pretty speedy, it > has some obvious short comings though (I believe floating point and > inlining are lacking, as well as some more modern optimizations). >
I'm pretty sure DMD does inlining. After all, it *does* have an "-inline" commandlne flag. My understanding is that it just doesn't always inline everything it could.