[kevingadd]

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]

Of course you can force-inline.

[cbarrick]

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

[mgaunard]

You can in any systems programming language.

Go is mostly a toy language for cloud people.

[cbarrick]

> toy language

You may be surprised to hear that Go is used in a ton of large scale critical systems.

[mgaunard]

I don't consider cloud technology a critical system.