bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
bearophile wrote:
I meant that D seems designed to not assume that the back-end is able to
inline delegates, and indeed at the moment usually not even LLVM is able
to do it (while Scala compiler is able to often perform this
optimization, and gives the JavaVM code already optimized in this
regard).
D does inlining entirely in the front end.
I think LDC has totally disabled the inlining of the front-end and uses just
the LLVM inliner, because despite it unfortunately has less semantics to work
with, it gives better results anyway.
Firstly, this is not a back end vs front end issue. A compiler can do it in
either place, neither is inherently better than the other. Secondly, in what way
does LLVM give better inline results?
